One night while watching television, we saw an advertisment for (PTI) Patent & Trademark Institute of America, We contacted PTI for some guidence & advise concerning our invention idea only to be misled, lied to, and riped off by a man named Chris Ceceres & his staff. We were told we had an original idea and they were very excited about it, they told us to send them 695.00 to do a preliminary search and said the search would inform us weather or not we should persue a patent after the search Chris informed us that there was nothing close to our idea in their search results.
He then informed us that our idea had a great chance of being patented and would be on the shelves by fall, he then informed us we needed to send him another 11,970.00 right away in order to make a trade show deadline and for plan 1 & plan 3 which he explained to us would include a full patent search from a patent attorney, the full patent search from their attorney still showed nothing close to our invention idea. After not receiving answers from them we decided to speak to a patent attorney in our state, in 5 min. With the attorney we knew we had been riped off in 10min. We had a patent search that made PTI and their patent attorney's patent search look like blank paper. What is really scary and sad is that before we sent PTI any money we contacted the BBB to check if they were a reliable company, we were informed that PTI had very little complaints for the number of years they have been in business. We also don't understand why TV, Radio and other advertising agency's would allow people like this to continue comitting these crimes, crushing peoples hope and dreams and loose complete faith in themselves and others. How do they live with themselves.
WE ARE FIGHTING BACK. It's not over till it's over. This is for PTI, ULC, and the rest of your so called staff.
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