Complaint Review: Quirky - Internet Internet

The reason they get most of the money and rights to your product is because they do all the work besides thinking of the invention. The fact that you get 30% of what you earn is quite generous. The author of this article did not do suffecient research. 

This "report" reads like the back page of the National Enquirer,is this how your site works?file fraudulent reports about legitimate companies so you can collect user data when they file a rebuttal?,I notice you asked for enough private info from me when I signed up here,by the way I had to untick 6 different boxes to try not to get on any of your corporate mailing lists,please don't ignore than and pass my info on anyway.

As far as Quirky goes,I use the site and have submitted several inventions(You can find me there listed as "Mike Ryan"check me out :-),because I actually did my research,Quirky has always been above board,and I have never seen anything to suggest Ben Kaufman is anything other than above board,honest and realistic.

1.) On submission of an idea Quirky takes IP of an invention(once it passes eval,most don't).

2.) Quirky take 20% of the NET profit from your stake if it get's made(few do)

3.)Members of the community who contribute to making your idea profitable also get a percentage of the profit,a figure YOU decide in advance of recieving their help.

4.)If at any point your idea doesn't cut it and is dropped(many are),full IP ownership reverts back to you and you can do as you like.

To anyone reading this "report",do yourself a fovour and check out THIS website before taking anything it says as legitimate reporting,sites like this profit from taking money from companies to have "reports" removed,therefore a less scrupulous company will not appear on it's pages as they will pay to keep doing business,real companies (like Quirky,and their partners GE) don't involve themselves with trash like this.The simple rule is before you place any trust in a company do your research,especially if that company happens to be these click whores.

I just submitted by life's invention to Quirky, now I am reading this. Did I just make a huge dumb mistake? If so, what can I do now, I trusted them with my idea. I didn't expect them to build the product for me, but I didn't think they'd steal it for themselves. I saw them on CBS this morning, felt them of good character, and CBS endorsed their service. Now I am scared to death. I'd hate to see Sully Sullivan hawking my invention a year from now for someone else.  

What the idiot that published that report fails to realize is, any company you license to that pays for or takes over IP, is listed as the assignee. They own your IP but you profit from it, just by signing it over. I know of no company that will take your idea, develop it, manufacture it, sell it, account for it and let you own the IP.

This is not so much a rebuttal as an answer to your question regarding who the inventor is.

It looks like Quirky.com requires that inventors submit their ideas before everyone comments. The submitter would be the only inventor of the idea. Changes to style or form would generally not be patentable, and would probably not be described in a patent. Most, if not all, commenters would make suggestions that fall in this category. The only time a commenter would be an inventor is if they suggested a novel change to the operation or structure that was later recited in claims of a patent. 

So you'd never have 800 inventors, as you suggest. At most, only two or three people would likely suggest the type of features that may be included in a patent.