Terms
and Conditions ("These Terms")
Effective Date: July
7, 2009
1
Eligibility
The Quest is open to all
individuals worldwide including outsiders and internal staff except those who
are on the evaluation and judging panels.
However, internal staff participants should only work on and submit their product
ideas or concepts during non-office hours.
All information submitted must be
in English.
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How to submit your ideas
2.1
Click on the "Submit your idea" at home page
2.2
Fill in the submission form and submit your product ideas according to
the examples and guideline in the form
2.3
You may upload any supplementary information such as sketches,
additional descriptions, etc, but ONLY in MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, JPEG and
PDF format not large than
2.4
You may be required to submit personal information such as your full
name, address, email address, contact telephone number and so forth. The terms
of use of such personal information are contained in our Privacy Policy.
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Judging criteria
Oregon Scientific will evaluate all
submitted products ideas and concepts periodically under the following
criteria:
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Originality and innovation,
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Sufficiency of information (such as, without limitation, "how it works"
and "how to make it work"),
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Benefits and applications,
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Technical feasibility in product development;
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Manufacturing risks, and
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Appeal to consumers in terms of perceived value, aesthetics, and smart
living concepts
Oregon
Scientific reserves the right to make the final selection of the product ideas.
Please note that it is possible that someone may have submitted a similar idea
before you did. In such case, we
will select the earlier submitted idea.
Oregon
Scientific will not return submitted ideas and concepts to you. Likewise,
in view of the foreseeable number of
product ideas or concepts that we may receive and the complicated evaluation
process, Oregon Scientific will not provide progress updates. However, we will contact you if your
submitted idea or concept is selected.
Otherwise, Oregon Scientific
makes a reasonable non-obligatory attempt to notify you once a final decision
has been made.
We
appreciate that many product ideas or concepts potentially form the backbone of
true innovation, but before such product ideas or concepts are
reduced to practice or described in a
reasonable level of tangible detail, they cannot be properly categorized as
innovation and such ideas or concepts will unlikely be eligible for
participation in the Quest.
However, we treasure your product ideas and concepts and, in order to keep such
ideas and concepts "alive", we have established a "Suggestion Box" to gather
those ideas and concepts that, although not eligible for the Quest for now, may
help improve our products and your user experience in the future.
Prior
to submission of your product ideas and concepts under the Quest, you will be
asked if you would allow us to transfer your ideas and concepts into our
Suggestion Box should it not qualify under the Quest by not meeting our judging
criteria.
You must select either "Yes" or
"No" before your product idea and concept will be successfully submitted.
If
you select "Yes" and your submitted product idea or concept does not qualify
under the Quest, you agree to the following:
·
that your submitted product ideas and concepts will be transferred to
Oregon Scientific's Suggestion Box;
·
that you unconditionally allow Oregon Scientific and/or its affiliates
to freely use your product ideas and concepts for product/service improvement
purposes, including without limitation any incorporation of such product ideas
and concepts into future products/services whether in its original, modified or
derived form;
·
that you unconditionally allow Oregon Scientific to publish such ideas
and/or concepts in any way as it deems fit and proper;
·
that you will not be rewarded in any way as a result of Oregon
Scientific or its affiliates' use of such product ideas or concepts;
·
that you will waive all your rights (if any) in such product ideas and
concepts, including any intellectual property rights that may arise by virtue
of such product ideas and concepts; and
·
that Oregon Scientific and its affiliates will not be liable to you in
any way by virtue of any use or modification of your product ideas and
concepts.
If you select "No" and your submitted product idea or concept
does not qualify under the Quest, Oregon Scientific will make reasonable
efforts to permanently erase all data relating to such product idea or concept
from its system and records.
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The Reward Scheme
There are three levels of
rewards:
4.1
Entry prize of US$ 150 or local currency equivalent if
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Your product idea or concept is has been evaluated and selected by the
judge panel for feasibility study and development
4.2
Grand prize of US$1,000 or local currency equivalent if
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The product ideas or concepts have been commercialized for mass
production and market launch
4.3
Discretionary bonus of up to US$2,000 or local currency equivalent if
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Within 12 months from product launch date, the total net sales revenue
meets or exceeds Oregon Scientific's prescribed sales target(s)
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Winner notification
Oregon Scientific will notify the
winners by email. All winners must
acknowledge receipt of the notification and confirm to us the payee name and
the bank account within 14 days following such email. If
a winner fails to reply to the acknowledgement within this period, Oregon
Scientific reserves the right to forfeit the reward.
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Intellectual Property
6.1
By submitting the idea, you agree and warrant that, to the best of your
knowledge and belief, you are the sole creator/author of, and have the legal
right to submit to us, the submitted idea or concept, that the idea or concept
is original, and that it is neither subject to or violates any intellectual
property rights owned by others. Oregon Scientific and its associated companies
(Oregon Scientific) will not be liable for any damage or loss incurred by the
submitted ideas or from the participation of the quest in submitting the idea
6.2
Oregon Scientific and/or its associated companies will become the owner
of all intellectual property rights, if any, subsisting in all selected ideas
and concepts.
6.3
Ideas, in
and of themselves, are generally not accorded legal protection. Certain steps
must usually be taken to obtain trademark, copyright or patent protection of an
idea or concept, if such protection is available. By submitting an idea or
concept, you understand that the idea or concept may or may not have legally
protected rights and are submitted at your own risk.
6.4
Oregon
Scientific's consideration of any submitted idea or concept or any subsequent
selection thereof does not waive its right to Quest the validity of any patents,
copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights related to, or
covering, the submitted idea or concept.
6.5
By entering
this Quest, you agree that Oregon Scientific may use his/ her/their name(s),
address(es), comments, likeness(es), photos, and a description of the submitted
idea or concept, if the individual accepts any prize, in publicity and/or
advertising concerning this Quest or otherwise in any medium now known or
hereafter devised (including the Internet or other interactive network) in
perpetuity throughout the universe without further compensation or right of
review and agrees to waive his/her rights with respect to such publicity and/or
advertising. You warrant that such information, idea or concept description,
etc., will not be defamatory, offensive, abusive or of an obscene or menacing
character, will not contain information about persons who have not consented to
the use of such information, will not offend against reasonable standards of
taste and decency and will not infringe any third party intellectual property
rights.
7.
Other
Terms
7.1 Your submission of an idea or
concept automatically confirms your acceptance of These Terms. You agree that decisions of Oregon
Scientific are final and binding upon all entrants for all aspects of the Quest.
Non-compliance with any of These Terms will be grounds for disqualification of
the selected submission, forfeiture of any prize and the selection of an
alternate submission to win the forfeited prize.
7.2 Oregon Scientific must disclose a
submitted idea or concept to its employees, and possibly others, in order to
determine the idea or concept's value to us. Accordingly, no confidential
relationship is created, absent a written agreement to the contrary, based on
Oregon Scientific's receipt and consideration of an idea or
concept.
7.3 Oregon Scientific employs innovative
people and receives ideas and concepts from outside sources. So it is possible
that Oregon Scientific is already practicing, or has practiced, an idea or
concept identical or similar to that which you submitted. Similarly, it is
possible that Oregon Scientific has already conceived of an identical or similar
idea or concept. Finally, it is possible that Oregon Scientific has already
received an identical or similar Idea from an outside source. Consideration of
your submitted idea or concept does not surrender Oregon Scientific's right to
practice its own or others' ideas or concepts.
7.4
7.5 Oregon Scientific shall not be
responsible for lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, delayed, or misdirected
submissions, or for technical hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or
unavailable network connections, failed, incomplete, or damaged online entries
or garbled or delayed computer transmissions, which may limit your ability to
participate in the Quest in any way. Oregon Scientific shall not be responsible
for any problems or the technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines,
computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software,
failure of any email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion, or
any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other
party's computer or other property related to or resulting from your
participation in or downloading any materials in connection with this
Quest.
7.6
Oregon Scientific reserves the right to cancel the Quest at any time,
without notice and for any reason, including, but not limited to, reasons of
fraud, technical failures, virus, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or
other causes destroying the integrity of the Quest as determined in Oregon
Scientific's sole discretion and to award the prizes based on entries received
prior to such cancellation.
Oregon Scientific shall not be liable for
any interruption to this Quest whether due to Force Majeure or other factors
beyond its reasonable control.
7.7
Oregon
Scientific reserves the right, acting reasonably and in accordance with all
relevant legislation and codes of practice, to vary these Terms without prior
notice, provided that any such variations do not apply to submissions made prior
to the effective date of the varied Terms.
The effective date of these Terms and any variation thereof is stated at
the beginning of these Terms.
7.8
You agree to
comply with all export laws, rules and regulations applicable to the submitted
idea or concept and/or the submission thereof in this
Quest.
7.9
This Quest is
governed by