If these advertisers want to know anything about your invention, just remember the odds are that they just want to steal it. Don't go there
And if you wondering how a patent lawyer or anyone for that mater, can back date your invention. It's all about a public notary's register. It's only a slot where there put a persons name and that they had witnessed a signing of a document. All they have to do is make a new document to have their own public notary stamp and back date it to that prior register. (This is what happens at many of the invention submission agencies you see advertised on TV.) It's against the law for patent lawyer to advertise on TV, so they just call themselves invention submission corporations.) You can bet that they will ask you if you have a proto-type. If you don't, they can walk into their own public notary and write phoney paper against you. Kiss that thing good-by.
If you are interested, you can check out the second link on Current Events. (Go to Current Events and then click on More Current Events.) There you will find out who's behind an effort to change the patent laws to first to file instead of first to invent.
Yeah, just try to get it past a patent lawyer when his cousin can file before you. Well at least if he isn't honest. As for my experience, I've only found 2 honest lawyers out of 5. So good luck.
