In August of Dale Ream (sole perpriator of Harshaw Research) claimed that he could and would prepare a patent application for me and have it submitted to the USPTO within six weeks. He also stated that he could have my product on the market in four months. He contacted me serveral times pressuring me to act promptly, explaining that "timing" was key to the market success of my product. I drove 1700 miles to Kansas to demomstrate a prototype and convey the seriousness I felt toward the project.
His Vice President further assured me that he himself could have my invention sold to a manufacturer within sixty days of pending. He spoke of sales teams, marketing statigies, presentations, promotion, licence agreements, cash advances, production, and royalties. All of which was to happen in the comming twelve months. I paid Harshaw $9,200. Niether one of them ever called me again. Ever.
After waiting five months on January 30, I contacted Harshaw. Not only was my product not on the market, but the patent application had not even been submitted! In fact it was not even completed. And Harshaw's "vice president" had conveniently vanished and all his enthusiasm with him.in fact he was no vice president at all. He had no interest in the company, didn't own any stock, or hold a seat on any board of directors. He was a hired con-man given the title to make him seem more trust worthy.
At first Dales excuses for the delays were saturated with flattery about the complexities of my ideas. But as the months turned into years his demeanor grew sinical, ie "read your contract". When the day did arrive that my application was offically pending, Dale changed his position 180 degrees. Now he not only advised against promoting my device but absolutly refused to.insisting on waiting for a full patent to be granted from the USPTO which could and did take years. I was livid. Still, Dale choose not to be forthcomming about the future and sugar coated the bad news with more lies about untility patents in my category taking only three to six months to process. I waited seven months. Again without one word from Harshaw. When I called I was refered to a employee named Shirley who told me that my application was not scheduled for review for another eleven months! I waited nine months, a full change of seasons without so much as a Christmas card from Harshaw. The time frame had changed yet once more. This time her exact words were "no time soon". When I pressed Shirley about the vagueness of her statement she told me "some patents are taking up to three years". They never did help me promote my invention. Ever.
Eventually Dale began taunting me to go public myself. He assured me via serveral concerned emails and phone conversations initiated on my part that patent infringment should not be a concern. I contacted a company in Tacoma, WA. They immediatly arranged for me to do an on-site demonstration at their offices in November. Dale still refused to get invovled. Here is this man that was so adament about timing in the beginning and now, two and half years later, it seems I couldn't get him to help me if I held
a gun to his head. The demo was a hit. Employees that had the day off were comming in to test their skills on my machine. The CEO, s
then asked me to prepare a DVD presentation to send off to their corporate offices in the UK. When I consulted Ream with this information all he could do was proceed to try and sell me $7,000 dollars worth of what would later prove to be more worthless over-seas patent applications. He even mailed me a form to try and get me to put it on a credit card. I never heard back from the manufacturer after the delevery of the presentation. However five months later, in the spring of low and behold a version of my invention appeared on their web-site. The worlds first Precision Slotcar Racing Machine was born. Well... Besides mine. What did Ream have to say?"Theirs is different". Isn't Dale clever?"Their's" had a staging area like mine, Ready lites like mine, a Start/Finish line like mine, a lite Gantry start sequence like mine, Early Start Detection Red lite like mine, Timers to 1/100th of a second like mine. WhAT? Did Dale expect them to build an exact replica? Slot Cars have been around for fifty years and I had been watching the market for decades.in my patent search there is not so much as a piece of Slor Car track with a line painted acrossed it to even suggest a
starting point for a sanctioned race. Different or not, now there was a Slot Car Racing Machine where there used to be none. Presently my invention has sponed the imaginations of two other Slotcar companies and open up a flood gate of ideas. Just put "Slot Car Timers" in your search engine and see what comes up from companies that were not even interested in counting laps a year earlier.
I had also simultaniously ran an article in Slot Car Illustrated online magazine and a video on Utube. Both with Dales knowlege and incouragement. Both are available for review under "slot car time trials". Check out the responses from as far away as Australia praising my accomplishments and asking about pricing and shipping.
Please view the video and keep in mind that these men are in their forties jumping around like children. I built this machine on the theory that modern day retail slot car sets are the most overlooked racing mediums on the planet. My mission was to revolutionize a classic American Toy into an Extreme Racing Experience. It also took second place at the Inventors Showcase Event held at the Oregon Musium of Science and Industry in May. And finally here is the penical of this colosal nightmare. After waiting four years, my patent application was refused by the United States Patent and Tradmark Office. Harshaw abandoned me with nothing but a useless stack of papers and CAD drawings. So now I have no legal recourse to the people that developed and exploted my ideas and now have patents of their own pending on my concepts. But I do not hold the manufacturers accountable as I did not as of yet own a patent and it was a fantastic idea that would morph the industry overnight. It is Dales horific legal advise and incompetence as a patent attorney that I hold accountable. He was so preoccupied with stalling me and hustling his own "services" that product development
was never even a concievable notion. His perpetual and systematic series of lies and double talk are far to numerus to list here. And you do not have to take my word for anything. It's all documented in emails from the little liar himself at harshawResearchScam.com. He admits that he cannot name one time that he contacted me after he got my money. He could not even cough up one name of an individual that he made money for while their patent was pending. Dale tells his potential victoms that he can sell their ideas while their patent is pending approval to drastically shorten the time frame for a potential return on their investment from appoximatly five years to approxiatly five months. But the instant their money clears in his bank account, stalling becomes his only stratigy as the client
instantly becomes nothing more than a thorn in his side. Everything from why the BBB of Kansas refuses to post complaints against Harshaw to Dales bogus testimonials are covered at the website. If the address is omitted it is easy to guess. Keyword: scam.
Ream has no right to even insinuate that he can make money for anyone. And I will prove it right now. This portion of this document is addressed to you Dale.in your response, I, Daniel Tyler, hereby summons you, Dale Ream, to answer one simple and fair question before complaints on behalf of your clients:
WHAT IS YOUR PERCENTAGE SUCCESS RATE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT SELLING MANUFACTURING LICENCE CONTRACTS FOR YOUR CLIENTS WHILE THEIR PATENTS ARE PENDING? No explainations, no essays, don't answer the question with a question.
Digits Dale. A number followed by a percentage symbol. Well, in your case, a decemal point, followed by a number,
followed by a percentage symbol. What is your success rate dale? What is your success rate?
sincerly daniel t
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