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Janusz does not have any experience in design. American Inventor is not what
it claims to be.

I attended the audit in New York and I was surprised to find out that
American Inventor organizers were not looking for good inventions. The
"judge" (25 year old aspiring actress?) who audited me (with the other
"judge" who did not say anything) said: "Your invention is very interesting,
but this is not what we want to show." She asked me what was my profession
and if I had filed a patent application. This judge apparently did not to
allow any engineer to pass to the next level judges.

I realized that you need participants with a crazy and funny look, people
who will come blowing bubbles from the nose and releasing smoke from their
ears, because this is funny and this will give the show high rating. Maybe,
but for how long?

Thousands of people believing that you are looking for invention that will
be widely used in the USA have been defrauded. We waited 8 hours outside in
heavy rain, without toilet and another 6 hours inside to find out that they
do not need inventions. We disclosed to ABC tens of pages of confidential
information giving up our privacy (in my case you get the Provisional Patent
Application).
It looks that the show will not be able to find any real invention and will
be as big failure as was "Who wants to Marry a Millionaire." Janusz
Liberkowski, the last year winner (and the only participant with an
interesting idea), never tested his invention with a real child. He had a
good idea but forgot to provide a cover (without a cover the child’s
limbs could be amputated during an accident) and the size of the seat will
not allow it to be installed in a car. I do not believe that you will be
able to show him as somebody who is successful on the market
I believe that sooner or later an attorney will file a class action lawsuit
against ABC in behalf of the audited participants who have been fooled.

I have two inventions, one of them a real "killer".

I sometime ago suggested a bungee like device for standing soldiers in helecopters for the anecia. These are found at www.brigadequartermasters.com

The spinning of the baby will prevent any marketable seat like this.

Well, I didn't expect to see any of the 4 final inventions on the market anytime soon. Janusz won because he had a revolutionary prototype that could potentially save lives, AND the sad life-story of losing his own daughter in a car accident. He was exactly what the show was looking for, and I'm glad he won the 1 Million.

About Evenflo, they probably did some testing and figured that it would not be profitable to continue developing this invention...Product development can be very expensive and time consuming, especially child safety seats. Well, I am surprised that ABC / Evenflo allowed Janusz to take his idea to another company. If I remember correctly, the licensing agreement was exclusive, and all the participants needed to sign it. Anyhow, if he saw that this company was not going to further develop his product, then he has taken the correct step in moving it to another company for development. He must have somehow worked the opt-out terms into the licensing agreement, which is pretty smart.

The other two inventions, Word Ace, and The Catch, should already be on the market by now. Heck, since Season 1, I've brought my Disc Eraser prototype through product development, manufacturing, and now it's available and selling online, after a year of hard work. I did mostly everything myself, including the website and online marketing. I am glad I didn't get into the final 4 and be stalled upon by ABC's licensing agreements. -Wade

www.DiscEraser.com  Why shred? Recycle instead!

Yes I went to the Tampa casting and the same thing happend  to me. they did not even give me the respect of showing my product to them, a young kid pre screener and a young  girl were more intrested in jokeing with each other. The pre screener just said to me sorry but no! and  gave me a sheet of papper and said that I could leave but what upset me the most was the lack of respect they had for me and others  that went through the casting and yes if you were wacky or crazy they would

pass you to the next round and if your product was good and you were a real inventor they send you home what can we do to stop ABC from what they are doing to these people who really try to show there product and are not giving a chance we need some  attorney that can step up to the plate a file that class action law  suit please respond thank you. Visit my invention at http://www.vilabrush.com and check out the animation.

I was at Tampa too! Thay can do what they want as indicated in rules at their descetion. But, if It is in writing that no computer pogram software is allowed, they can be held liable since they allowed it and it also won (paper racers). I would think the other winner would also be disqualified since it's already patented (tree angel). Post these comments however in the Forum.

I find this webpage, and now see CD dude is spamming Craig's List with his crap not 10 minutes later. 

I agree about what the first "Anonymous" said, although I am worried that he called his invention a real killer. This show has the worst turnover ratio in the auditions. Also, they boast that "It was one of the 10 inventions out of the field of 10,000," but if you never get in front of the judges, it doesn't matter. Yours could easily be better. So, note for next time, bring a 7-year old, toothless, Charlie Bucket-looking kid and say that he invented it and you're his "guardian." Also bring your life partner, liberal ABC eats that up. You will get the audition you request. And if you ever do check up on your post, may I ask, what were your inventions, anyway?

For the man whose blog this is, I was wondering: What ever happened to the USA Network show "Made in the USA"? It was the precursor to this show, except it had teams and weekly challenges. I know the show was pulled from the air and the series ended with a series of webisodes, but who won? And what happened with their inventions?

I expected the 1st show of the season to update us from last year. I thought many of the things not in the top 6 had potential. Not doing an update, showing at least one story of a product now available for sale say's "Why are we watching season 2." Obviously the show did not have any great stories of success to share. And then this year, they pick an under the counter wrap dispenser? I have one under my counter, it holds 3 rolls. I got it 4 years ago at Goodwill. My Mom has a wall mounted, holds paper towels and 2 rolls of wrap,  plus it has a miniature hutch and a knick knack shelf to boot. got it on ebay, $14.99.   If not for the Fireman, with his guardian Angel, I'd quit watching the show.

what I find interesting with the 2007 winner is that the judges high end bussiness personel. forgot to ask what would their liability if the tree angel didn't work. That if people lost there life depending on it. And who would be resonsable for the lost???

MY NAME IS ANECIA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT IT WAS SO COOL TO HAVE A CAR SEAT NAMED AFTER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT NAME FROM? WHY DID YOU INVENT IT?

Thanks for this blog, I was wondering about this product.

Anecia was also his daughter's name