[2] WPM was described as part of a "long history of invention scammers", although "few exceeded Scott J. Cooper at wringing so much money out of individual victims.

WPM marketed false success stories, collected sizable fees from clients, did not deliver on their promises, and later used threats and intimidation to discourage complaints.

[6] Visitors to the World Patent Marketing website would find a listing of WPM's advisory board and a series of misrepresentations including success stories, testimonials, and major retailers in which customers' products were sold.

Once customers had paid, however, WPM would typically ignore them, fail to provide the promised services, and threaten them with legal action if they attempted to get their money back.

They told potential customers that their review included a "Global Invention Royalty Analysis" containing a marketability study created by a "Harvard University & MIT Research Team."

He sees some good opportunities ahead.However, the FTC concluded that the company had no Review Team and no association with Harvard or MIT, nor had it appeared to ever turn down an idea for a new product.

"[10] The FTC reported that World Patent Marketing also attempted to frighten their customers by sending them emails describing a company security team of "all ex-Israeli Special Ops and trained in Krav Maga, one of the most deadly of the martial arts...The World Patent Marketing Security Team are the kind of guys who are trained to knockout first and ask questions later.

[11]In early 2015, when posts critical of WPMI appeared on Ripoff Report, a consumer complaint company's website, advisory-board member Matthew Whitaker phoned the operator of the website and, using vulgar language, threatened to sue the owner and ruin his business for allowing "false" reports, even threatening the owner with Department of Homeland Security intervention.

[6] Another board member, Aileen M. Marty, a professor of infectious disease at Florida International University in Miami, said she had been told that she would be sent patent ideas to review.

[19] In April 2016 when an irate customer, Crystal Carlson, received a threatening email from Cooper she searched Facebook and found dozens of other inventors who had also been scammed.

However, the inventor told Carlson that the Patent Office had rejected his application and he was left with thousands of bumpers stored in a warehouse, selling only 15.

Carlson organized victims and they filed a class-action lawsuit in December 2016 alleging deception, fraud, and violations of the American Inventors Protection Act's disclosure rules.

Cooper's firm claimed to not be bound by the American Inventors Protection Act and accused the claimants of blaming the company for the failure of their invention ideas.

As usual, a salesperson responded he "had a great idea with lasting power" and "should expect a revenue stream for decades" even though recipes are almost impossible to patent.