Through the bankruptcy of invention start-up Quirky Inc., inventors who submitted their products to Quirky might now get the chance to regain full ownership of their inventions, the Wall Street Journal Bankruptcy Beat blog reported yesterday. The committee, appointed about a month ago to represent unsecured creditors—including inventors who receive royalties from the sales of their products through Quirky—is asking the bankruptcy court to slow down the Quirky sale process, in part to allow inventors that opportunity. “Upon information and belief, the Committee understands that the Debtors’ advisors have received interest from certain of the inventors in ‘buying back’ some of the Products,” the committee said in court documents.
