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Revisiting World Patent Marketing: The Multi-Million Dollar Scam Matt Whitaker Was Neck Deep In
Whitaker's role in enabling the plot should be disqualifying from serving as Acting Dog Catcher let alone Acting Attorney General.
While his illegal appointment and commitment to halting the Mueller investigation are deservedly taking top billing, Matt Whitaker’s involvement with a company called World Patent Marketing is flying a little below the radar. Which is a shame, because the human misery this scam organization wrought upon its unsuspecting victims is heartbreaking to hear about and Whitaker’s role in enabling the plot should be disqualifying from serving as Acting Dog Catcher let alone Acting Attorney General.
What was World Patent Marketing? It claimed to be a company that helped aspiring inventors secure patents and cash in on the American Dream. For a hefty fee, of course. By the time the whole thing unraveled and the FTC shut down the company as a fraud, it had left its customers little to show for all their investments.
First, salespeople would peddle a $995-to-$1,295 “Global Invention Royalty Analysis,” or GIRA, containing research prepared by an “Ivy League research team” that scored an invention’s likelihood of market success on a scale of 0 to 100. Customers who took the bait received a glossy, 70-page booklet in the mail….
Next, salespeople pitched patent protection and invention promotion packages with price tags between $7,995 and $64,995. Then came phase three: a “licensing” or partnership deal priced anywhere from $50,000 to $400,000.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/11/revisiting-world-patent-marketing-the-multimillion-dollar-scam-matt-whitaker-was-neck-deep-in/?rf=1
Whitaker's role in enabling the plot should be disqualifying from serving as Acting Dog Catcher let alone Acting Attorney General.
While his illegal appointment and commitment to halting the Mueller investigation are deservedly taking top billing, Matt Whitaker’s involvement with a company called World Patent Marketing is flying a little below the radar. Which is a shame, because the human misery this scam organization wrought upon its unsuspecting victims is heartbreaking to hear about and Whitaker’s role in enabling the plot should be disqualifying from serving as Acting Dog Catcher let alone Acting Attorney General.
What was World Patent Marketing? It claimed to be a company that helped aspiring inventors secure patents and cash in on the American Dream. For a hefty fee, of course. By the time the whole thing unraveled and the FTC shut down the company as a fraud, it had left its customers little to show for all their investments.
First, salespeople would peddle a $995-to-$1,295 “Global Invention Royalty Analysis,” or GIRA, containing research prepared by an “Ivy League research team” that scored an invention’s likelihood of market success on a scale of 0 to 100. Customers who took the bait received a glossy, 70-page booklet in the mail….
Next, salespeople pitched patent protection and invention promotion packages with price tags between $7,995 and $64,995. Then came phase three: a “licensing” or partnership deal priced anywhere from $50,000 to $400,000.
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/11/revisiting-world-patent-marketing-the-multimillion-dollar-scam-matt-whitaker-was-neck-deep-in/?rf=1