Walmart is selling knockoffs of my inventions (AND using my photos) 

What invention do you want to see me build next?!

The only way around someone stealing your designs is to get even MORE unnecessary!

LMAO the Lokt charger bending with the screw in the centre. UI's one looked far better lmao

I’ve always had ideas and wanted to patent them but they are all stoner ideas 😂 I wonder if Josh from RAW papers would be down to make a buncha stuff cuz I sure as hell don’t have 25k$ ☠️

0:42 if youre a real gamer you dont need to see the buttons

Well you can technically SUE wallmark, for using your pics without consent

Yes. YES. More testing similar inventions please. And showing more crossover with other designs it’s so interesting

“They will be picking up their own Lego?” LEGO!? Is Lego the plural? Is my life a lie?

Sok'em boppers where awesome

😅one things for sure he has a fanbase on china

This Kids Proff so They don’t Touch the controller and messed up the game kewl

Come on at least take your own photos

This was entertaining. I was looking up gaming-mechanic-patents a while ago. Its a ridicilous minefield :X

if u have intellectual property insurance that wouldn't happen.

i like your mustache

You know that they can not legally use your picture and it seems that you will have a case on that

Factories in China monitor Kickstarter, Shark Tank, your channel - anywhere new ideas pop up. They then pump out cheap knockoffs and dump them on Aliexpress where vendors buy them in bulk and list them on Amazon, Walmart, etc. I've talked to so many inventors over the years who have dealt with this and it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle once it's out.

Not gonna lie, your charger cover looks way better

You could claim copyright on your own image (as the photographer), throw out a cease and desist letter (or issue a DMCA electronically) at them asking them to remove (the image). They may "accidently" just take the whole product page down rather than deal with figuring out which image is DMCA and which is not :P

Dude I can’t believe that people are doing this stuff. You don’t deserve this at all. I hope that they get what they deserve. And also I would love to see a series of this stuff!

Walmart is basically Amazon these days with 3rd party sellers doing sketchy and illegal crap, the big difference is you can return your crap directly to Walmart instead of shipping it back to crappy amazon

I've had a few of my designs show up on Aliexpress. One was even while the Kickstarter was still running! That was scary. Also, the current patent system is archaic and terrible. Its broken.

As an IP lawyer myself: you are focussing entirely on patents - which makes sense considering your channel title - but you are overseeing the other potential IP rights. Just like Crocs never addressed you based on their patent, they levered their other IP right: trademarks. Similarly, you also have a copyright (yes you do, it's automatic and free) to some aspects of your designs (provided they are not purely technical in nature, which is indeed a difficult assessment) but also most notably to your pictures. Therefore, anyone who blatantly copies your original photos of the product is infringing upon your copyright. Not exactly as satisfying, but still a way to address this behavior.

The sad reality of it is that the factories in china producing these things don't care about patent laws or intellectual property. They believe that business is about who can work harder, and do it faster and cheaper. You sign a contract with them where they promise not to manufacture or sell the product themselves. Since there's a contract, they stick to it. But then, whoever makes the molds and tools up the factory will share that equipment with a different factory. Now you've got an unrelated company that isn't bound by contract who can make them. If its popular you'll even get multiple companies doing it, all competing with cheaper and cheaper materials and quality control standards.

I am gonna say walmart website acts as a marketplace where people can sell their own stuff befkre watching the video, but I imagine that would clear it up. If you complain to walmart about it they should be able to help you.

Oh man, imagine spending three years developing a product and getting it ready for launch, only to see an extremely similar idea pop up on a channel called "unnecessary inventions"

3:02 It's astounding how similar the USB cover patent and your cover are. It makes sense, when designing a cover for the same ubiquitous cube, the cover is going to look the same but it still feels wild.

The fact that it costs $25 grand for an inventor to protect their investment from some asshat that wants to swoop in and steal the credit for someone else's innovation and hard work shows just how fucked this place really is.

your power brick looks nicer IMO. It doesnt stick out as much like theirs.

this is the same reason I don't post my "Best(according to me lol) product designs" online . I've documented them, maybe in future can work on those.

Yes make a series reviewing knock-offs of your inventions I would love to see that and I want to see what to but

Sorry someone stole your design man, but the clear plastic on both sides is definitely something I think you should adopt. It makes it so that the top side can be the bottom and the bottom side can be the top because now it no longer matters what hand goes in what hole. Hopefully that makes sense.. Okay I'm going to go binge watch your videos now lol (new viewer to the channel)

I actually find it adorable when inventors actually talk with each other on stuff like this.

I would LOVE to see a series of you buying similar and/or knockoffs of your inventions

Heard about a new web search engine years back ( it only lasted a few months ). Checked it out and found they were using images from my web site and then linking said images to my competitors web sites. . Sent them a letter saying that if they wanted to use my images them they had to pay me or I would take them to court. They deleted my images from their search engine.

Back when I used to run a web and app development business, one of my best clients was a couple whose 11 year old daughter had invented a pretty neat sleeping bag / backpack combo thinggie for sleepovers. It was such a good idea that they actually developed a product, went to the whole legal process of registering the trademark, copyrighting, and production. They hired me to develop their online shopping site. (This was back in 2006, Amazon wasn't that huge just yet) . Everything was going really well for about 2 years and then right after the 2008 financial crisis they discovered some goddamn Chinese company have ripped off their design, their idea, their photos, and had a distribution deal with Kmart, where they eventually found it. Eventually these clients had to take down their site because the lack of sales and the last thing I know is that they were involved in a major lawsuit against Kmart over the whole situation. They lost a business, I lost the business, and some f****** douchebag in China made a bunch of money.

You should create an annual “Unnecessary Invention Convention” to bring together all sorts of makers and people interested in trying out the crazy things you all design. It would be a blast!

I like that LOKT didn't do anything legal and just went like hey we exist, here's our product. Yes do the series!

25000 for patent.. utter bs

Upon seeing how slowly that Lego vacuum worked, despite decent suction, my first thought was of course why would I ever use that vacuum when it’s way faster to just pick it up. I mean, the sorting one makes things a little different but still, I could just pick it up for free. That said, I then thought of how often I would just leave my legos sitting out when I used to play as a kid, and honestly if I had a device like that as a kid, you’d beat believe I would throw my legos on the ground purely to vacuum them up afterwards

So they aren’t that uneccassery if people sell them!

Back in the early 1900's (can't remember the exact date), a child at the age of 12, whose father was a chemist, discovered how to make synthetic emeralds. His emeralds not only are the best still know to date, but are still not patent. He didn't want to have to give the recipe up so he never did. His son took up the business and still makes the emeralds today. No one has replicated as good of a synthetic emerald, still. Amazing

Patent or not, Walmart is still using YOUR photo. That is Copyright as long as you own the original and can provide EXIF Data. Go after Walmart for Copyright Infringement!

Imagine dedicating three years to your life to make a product and you see it on unnecessary inventions.

You should sue them

5:00 genius cover the holes so you can't use the controller... lol

In case of the croc and cable thingy I think the tag of "unnecessary invention" hits the company more deeply than the infringement

To be able to use your platform to highlight these products seems like a win either way; people out of curiosity want to see other takes on your inventions so you'll get the views and ad revenue, and viewers can also buy what they've always been begging for in the comments of every invention video. And if it helps highlight some small businesses as opposed to the dropship mass produced knock-off type products then that's always a good thing too.

I used to work in a small injection moulding shop. One of the things we used to make was a sink unblocker by using compression. While out at a Boot sale one day, I saw a blue one. Exactly the same as the one we made. I spoke to the boss who designed the device. Told him I had seen it, and he said yes, it's a Chinese knockoff. How did I know? We only made them in red or yellow. Happens with everything.

I just appreciate him putting the similar products he reviewed today in the description. And when he said the other person's brick vacuum took 3 years it's not an exaggeration as it takes time to create , make , test and sell.

You should definitely make a series out of this! It’s really entertaining watching you see them!

I can understand why you haven't bothered with selling products, it's a pain. Plus there's all the upfront cost before you can even begin to make money back, and the issue of where to store everything. But if you Did do it, I'd say go with 3D print on demand, include a selfie postcard, and sign it over Zoom. You have become the "product" in demand 😆

You can patent specific features. That's extremely common. You don't have to pay lawyers to submit patents. You can submit them yourself.

The patent thing is very scary 😔. I have 2 inventions that I believe are really good. The thing is... I'm scared to actually release them 😔. I kinda struggle with money, if any big company would copy my design, my project will most probably fail and I will be unable to even make a patent. Which means, I would not be able to use these inventions to be financially stable. Sad

In all seriousness, I am sorry this happened. Plagiarism is not a victimless crime and I believe that you deserve better than to have a company steal your creativity and hard work. Stay awesome, I hope everything goes well. ⭐️

This same thing happened to a guy I know of on Facebook. He invented a skid plate that fits on the underside of various Aventon electric bike models to protect the wiring that are located under the pedal crank. After his product being such a success, someone in China comes along and duplicates his product. The Chinese knockoff is currently being sold on eBay. It’s such a rotten thing to do, but what legal recourse does a small time manufacturer have against someone in China that’s outside our legal jurisdiction? It’s just morally wrong to steal someone’s idea and market it as your own to begin with, but some people just don’t care.

Honestly? I would just ding them for using your photo because you automatically have copyright on that. It won't stop them from doing it, but at least they would have to have their own pictures.

Walmart isn't selling them. It's just on their marketplace. It's the individual sellers you'd have to go after. But I worked for a company that has their stuff ripped off by Chinese reverse engineers.

one thing to note is that walmart doesn’t manage the online items usually, there’s so many fake controllers and clothes and other items that will say “sold and shipped by” and if it doesn’t say walmart then they usually can’t help

7:34 yes,yes you should

The only way to keep your inventions safe from being copied is to not tell anyone about it

You need invent a miniature Walmart, so Walmart can make that and the cycle will be complete.

One word: LAWSUIT.

I quite like your attitude to creation and design.

You should build an invention that takes in a scrambled rubix cube and dispenses a solved one so you don’t have to peel the stickers off. It doesn’t have to solve it, it can just store the scrambled one into a compartment on the side for someone else to try and solve.💡💡💡

Fun fact: there is no fun fact

For the PS5 controller I feel like this won't work. Any sort of force on that fragile controller can easily break it. Even simply setting it down on a hard surface can knock the mechanisms about and make it useless

8:45 I am an engineer, and to be honest reverse engineering something simple like a blow up toy from just a video or a few photos is surprisingly simple. Most of the time in engineering is doing the designing to make it functional and visually pleasing, and if someone already made those choices, then its pretty easy for someone to copy it ever with just a few photos XD

So many of your inventions are very sellable, and not at all unnecessary, which i love

3:35 wait? Don’t I just need a screwdriver?….. Then the powerbrick and cable are mine 👍

Ya know, every time I'm gaming for hours on end I'm always thinking " how can I make my hands sweatyrrr???" Thank you for your contribution to society, looks like I gotta buy one

You might not be able to sue on the grounds of them stealing your idea, but you can defiantly sue for them using your pictures. Copyright is automatic. And winning that suit means you get punitive damages. Depending on where you sue that could be in the area of $400k. Which is why Walmart will probably settle out of court for a pretty penny. This is payday for you and whatever lawyer you hire. I say, call Leonard French.

I had a very good idea. I made a rough prototype and showed a few friends and neighbors who agreed that my invention made a common task easier. I did my research on how to get a patent and found out it would take 4 years and $20k. In that time I would be ripped off and hardly able to make a profit. So in my opinion, it just wasn't worth it to me!

The rage cube is a brilliant product, if I was in the market for one I'd definitely buy your's over there's, don't like buying cheaply made knock offs that don't last.

Little did man's know he handin out million dollar ideas for the free

I’d love to see you test knockoffs and coincidental products!

@6:47 I wish I could find the words to express how incredible of a person you are to help these small inventors get their product out there.

Patents are directly a way for others to profit from your inventions!

im a 3d artist thats just getting into the flow of trying to sell my designs and characters, and i am horribly afraid of having someone steal my product and easily redistribute the files around the internet essentially making my hard months of work for nothing. I really wish there were better ways to help prevent pirating or stealing peoples hard work and designs without having to bend over backwards to stop as little as one person, when there could be so many distributing it at once... Maybe theres nothing I can do, and i should just live with the premises that im never going to be able to prevent someone from stealing my stuff, and that I should keep making things for me, at least then when or if I sell them, by the end of the day i'd still get use out of what I put effort into...

I would throw it at them

Oof that’s tough my g Also guys I don’t think you realize how hard it is to sue, much less a HUGE company

Awesome video, about the knock-off serie. Yes! Defintly would watch it, it sounds quite interesting to see what other people made that looks quite the same of what you made

“….Patent costs $25,000”. No sir. You’ve been misinformed. Individuals that aren’t rich, are called micro-entities. The cumulative total of all fees, search etc… $430. Inventors like to dissuade you from filing for patent protection for your ideas that solve modern day problems, so they can patent solutions to modern day problems, without you as competition.

7:40 yes please

This was honestly a very entertaining and fun video to watch! Great work, keep it up.

The fact that your taking this in stride and making a comedic bit out of an otherwise pretty sucky situation is really admirable.

3:45 are we not going to address the cheap plastic that bend when installed that look like dodo, if i where to buy this product i couldn't care less about the brick i want the retaining plate to look good.. the brick feels like a way to sell a 20 cent product for 15$+

Sue them

I fabricate things for cars using metal and my own tools. I use to go to NOPI shows and SEMA and show them off. Then I started getting people telling me I copied their design. Things that I had no idea would become very popular and I didn't think of getting patents or anything because it was just stuff I was throwing together. No way for me to prove I'm the original designer. An attorney told me the cost of fighting it was more then the cost of a patent. To this day, I still don't patent things. I just make things till someone tells me I'm duplicating their stuff. Then I tell them to look at my other RU-vid channels that was posted yrs ago and then tell me who came up with it. One good example is a supercharger adapter I made to install a supercharger on top of a non supercharged factory engine. Yrs after I posted a video, a guy contacted me and told me I stole his design. I said nope, I'm sure you seen it at the show and decided to make it yourself after you found out it wasn't patented. It was almost a perfect copy of mine. I found out his whole business was built on making the adapter and people flocked to him as if he came up with it. People steal ideas all the time. And it sucks that other people get rich off designs they didn't come up with.

Just put a disclaimer on yours that says something to the effect of "This is a novelty product and not guaranteed to protect your game controller from damage during an actual rage quit. If you actually do damage your controller while gaming go outside and touch grass."

You really should differentiate between "Walmart selling this crap" and "People selling this crap through Walmarts marketplace". There's a HUGE difference.

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If it's on walmart's platform, it's likely on Amazon and ebay and AliExpress as well.

This is the first time I stumbled on your channel, but loving the quality of this content! Subscribed. 👍

The part about keyboards not being patented because they would have to disclose the technology and it would become public knowledge is exactly the reason that Coca-Cola has never patented the recipe for Coke. They want to keep the exact recipe secret so much they haven't filed a patent which would force them to publicly disclose the recipe.

I'd like to start a petition with likes and replies showing just how many of us within the community agree that Matty should sue. Like, reply, comment, share or whatever to show that you support this petition to convince Matty to sue. I want to see a court case and see Walmart lose. There's no way you would lose it.

Just because someone patented something doesn't mean its any good. Ngl your outlet thingy looks way better.

I wrote my law school Capstone paper on drop-shipping, it will be published very soon. The conclusion of the paper was that IP law offers very few avenues for inventors to protect their IP from dropshippers. (Though technically your issue here is a counterfeit, and not just drop shipping). I am really interested in what inventors are doing to try and protect themselves and this video is a totally new approach I haven’t seen yet! Love what you are doing.

I think he should sell more of his stuff

I would definitely watch a series of knockoff inventions.