Michael,
The way you communicate with/about others is still appalling and your information here is simply factually incorrect.
Right up front: My invention has already been worked by another (more capable?) firm WITHOUT my needing to do anything else to it -- so Mike's comments about the invention having enablement issues or about my finances (really dude???) were obviously off-base and just an attempt to try to divert attention away from his failure to earn my business because he speaks TO people and ABOUT people...well...like he just did.
Since there seems to be some confusion, I can provide screenshots of emails if you'd like, Mike. Let's step through your comment:
1) "Helped this guy for months with no money and even gave him a free NDA."
False. Your statement is misleading because it makes it seem like you guys were doing work for me...which you weren't. After INITIAL CONSULT your attorney kept asking me for additional paperwork -- asking me to put information I had already given him into different worksheets. I wanted to move things along, but I was told you guys needed more information in a different format. I complied but being asked constantly for information without specifying what else you needed to be able to take action is what delayed things and strung things along for months.
OF COURSE I HADN'T PAID YOU!! I DIDN'T RETAIN YOU! YOU HADN'T DONE ANYTHING! We were still in the consult phase and couldn't seem to break out of it.
The free NDA? I offered a NDA but agreed to use your firm's -- don't act like you guys did me a huge favor or threw me a freebie.
2) That impossible to patent invention you speak of? You know...the one that was impossible for NOVA IP because I lack the ability to pay, describe how to make my idea work as an enabled invention, or both?
That same application conversion was worked - without issue - by another firm...with EASE. That should tell you something, Yelpers!
3) Mike, read your own admission: You told me "we would stick with the conversion price QUOTED."
Yeah...that's what you're SUPPOSED TO DO. You didn't "waive an additional cost." You deciding not to change the terms of a previous agreement (like you tried to do but I called you on) is not a selling point or a gift to me...reliability and being true to your word is an EXPECTATION.
4) I was actually willing to move forward from what I was willing to chalk up to a miscommunication (but, again, looked a lot like your firm trying to change the terms of a previous agreement -- AFTER having been given all of the information to base that quote on -- because you thought you saw an opportunity to try to get more money). After that, I said I wanted to take a step back and shop my invention to other firms. Thank God I did! Minutes later you decided to inject yourself into an email string between me and your attorney to weigh in with unprofessional content (language that seemed to be intended to intimidate or insult me -- you accomplished neither and just cemented my decision to RUN from NOVA IP, warn other consumers of how your firm does business, and how YOU choose communicate...though you seem to do a pretty good job of making my point in your comment).
I left your name out of my review but since you commented and included your name, you PERSONALLY earned the heck out of these reviews, Mike [and you kinda keep earning them with the insult-riddled emails you send me -- With that: Stop emailing me].
Yelpers, if I lacked the money to pay or the patentable invention, then how did another firm take the info and run with it so easily? Maybe the opposite is true and NOVA IP doesn't have the analytic bench or sufficient understanding of patent law to take an inventor's concept and create a solid patent application? Idk. Or maybe...just maybe...Mike was incredibly rude, patronizing, and disrespectful and he lost my business as a result.
For anyone who is on the fence about whether or not to do business with NOVA IP, just take a look at his comment!!! This guy is supposed to be a consummate professional deserving of your money and WORTHY of your trust...but he goes to a public forum and (including my last name) calls me ignorant, tries to call my finances into question, and says that my honest review was both stupid and unfair (let's see if he edits any of the name-calling out!).
If you want to give your hard-earned money to someone who speaks to people like that and tries to change the terms of agreements late in the game, you're on your own! All I can do is share with you my experience.
I hope that you'll spare yourself the heartache of engaging with NOVA IP. Months after stepping away from their firm (THANK GOD), I'm needing to update Yelp reviews at 11pm on a Sunday just to try to keep Mike's misleading replies from obfuscating the truth or causing someone to make the mistake of doing business with NOVA IP...
BTW -- Hey Mike, why did you feel it was professionally appropriate to list my last name? read more