Davison Design & Development
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| founder = George Davison
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Davison Design & Development, formerly Davison & Associates is a product development company.{{Cite web|url=https://www.corporations.pa.gov/search/corpsearch|title=Davison Design & Development Corp Search|website=corporations.pa.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-11-30}} The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was founded in 1989 by George Davison.
Business
Davison Design & Development provides new product development services to inventors, corporations and entrepreneurs using a nine-step process intended to bring new products and inventions to market.[http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/redcoat/ae_201007/index.php?startid=138 "Creative Profits"] American Executive, July 2010 Davison Design & Development services include research, industrial design, virtual reality, video, animation, product prototypes, packaging, presentation to manufacturers and royalty management.[http://triblive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/living/s_531213.html#axzz3hy3NgJgW "Workplace wonderment," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review] 7 October 2007
Products designed by Davison Design & Development include the Hover Creeper, Meatball Baker, Bread It breading stations, the BikeBoard, Pugz Shoes, the HydroBone for dogs and the 360° Wrist Therapy Brace. Davison Design & Development says that it produces approximately 200 prototypes per month, and its products have been sold in 1,000 retail stores and online venues.[http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7377701n&tag=contentMain;contentBody The CBS Early Show "Inventionland turns dreams into reality"] 22 August 2011 The firm has received several International Design Excellence Awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), formerly sponsored by I.D. Magazine and BusinessWeek, now sponsored by the Annual Design Review.[http://annualdesignreview.id-mag.com/about/ Annual Design Review] In 2007, Davison Design & Development received an honorable mention in I.D. Magazine's 2007 design review competition.{{cite news| url=http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/potm/2007-06-04/ | title=People on the Move}}
==Awards==
- Industrial design excellence award (IDEA) Silver Award for Design Strategy, Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), 2006: The Hover Creeper.http://www.idsa.org/content/content1/hover-creeper The Hover Creeper
- IDEA Bronze Award for Medical and Scientific Products, IDSA, 2006: The BikeBoard Product Linehttp://www.idsa.org/content/content1/bikeboard-product-line The BikeBoard Product Line
- IDEA Bronze Award, IDSA, 1996: Oil Filter Gripper[https://archive.today/20120722172450/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1996/b3478013.arc.htm Annual Design Awards: '96 Industrial Design Excellence Awards], BusinessWeek, 2 June 1996
Affirmative Disclosure Statements
In 1997, Davison Design & Development was one of eleven companies named in a Federal Trade Commission consumer protection operation called "Project Mousetrap".[http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1997/07/mouse.shtm FTC: FTC/State "Project Mousetrap" Snares Invention Promotion Industry] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023235640/http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1997/07/mouse.shtm |date=23 October 2011 }} Press Release, 23 July 1997 In 2006, Davison Design & Development were ordered to pay $26 million in consumer redress.[http://www.uspto.gov/main/homepagenews/bak2006fapr20.htm Court Halts Bogus Invention Promotion Claims]
Davison Design & Development appealed, and ultimately settled, with the FTC in 2008, agreeing to pay $10.7 million in cash, real estate and investment assets.[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_577525.html Pittsburgh Tribune] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026124220/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_577525.html |date=26 October 2008 }} In keeping with the requirements of the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999,[http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0184-invention-promotion-firms Invention Promotion Firm], Federal Trade Commission, retrieved 2013-08-30 the judge set out the details of an "affirmative disclosure statement" to be issued to future clients. Such disclosure statement must specify, among other things, the number of consumers in the last five years who have made more income in royalties or sales proceeds than they paid the company.[http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/07/davison.shtm "Invention Promoters Will Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Charges"] FTC press release
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.davison.com/}}
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