Legal Issues

A. Relevant Definitions

The organizer committee of Roche Bobois Design Award- 2009 China defines the following words in all relevant documents except where the context otherwise required:

The word ‘organizer committee’ refers to the organizer committee for the Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China, including its organizer and executive organizers.

The word ‘candidate’ refers to individual or team who applied for the Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China and has submitted his or her project to the committee.

 

The word ‘project’ refers to the original work presented to the organizer committee by the candidate.

The word ‘awarded project’ refers to all selected projects, which was nominated or won the Winning Award or Student Award.

The word ‘ winner’ refers to the candidate whose projects wons the Winning Award.

The word ‘contest’ refers to the contest of Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China

 

B. Legal Statement

 

The following terms are listed clearly in the official website and application forms of this contest. When the candidate applies by registering in the official website, he or she is regarded as having known and accepted these terms

 

i.Intellectual Property Rights

The candidates must confirm that they have complete and exclusive copyrights of their project submitted to the Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China. The candidates must confirm that they have never put their project into any form of commercial development or use in the world, nor have they authorized any third party to do so. The candidates must assure that their projects do not breach any laws or regulations of the People’s Republic of China, or infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights or other legal rights. In case of any infringement, the candidates must undertake legal liability by themselves

 

Each candidate will remain the ownership of its project and thus, of the rights relating thereto. It will be the candidate’s responsibility to provide the best protection for its creation. In this respect, the organizer committee disclaims any liability in the event of loss caused to the candidate due to insufficient, irregular or invalid protection

 

During the whole procedure of Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China the candidate shall not put their project into any form of commercial development or use in the world, nor have they authorized any third party to do so.

 

All winners by virtue of its participation in the Roche Bobois Design Award-2009 China:

Agrees that the prototypes being retained and displayed by the organizer committee without any limitation of time and without the right to any remuneration.

 

Agrees to grant Roche Bobois the priority of commercial exploitation of the project for a period of two years from the date of award; during this period, and in the event that a project receives a proposal from a third party to market its project, the party concerned undertakes to inform Roche Bobois as soon as possible by a registered letter with a proof of receipt requested and specify the terms of the offer. Within thirty days of receipt of this letter, Roche Bobois undertakes either to make an equivalent proposal, which the interested party must accept, or to give the interested party its consent to the commercialization of the project.

 

Agrees that the organizer releases the project in accordance with the Roche Bobois 2010 Spring Global Congress. A contract of release of model will be proposed to each winner.

The Roche Bobois Group will sign a contract with the winner concernning the rights of intellectual properties and relative exploitation in the case of intergration of their products into the collection of Roche Bobois brand. Roche Bobois has the right to modify or develop the project concerned after signing the contract.

 

Otherwise the winner’s project will be considered as free for public release.

ii. Broadcast Authorization

All candidates should authorize the organizer committee the rights to publicize its project through media such as newspaper, magazine, television, internet, books, catalog or exhibition, etc., and to use his personal image, without limitation of time and without them conferring any right to any remuneration.

iii.Exemption Clauses

All the project file and projects which have been submitted by the candidates to the organizer committee will not be returned. The organizer committee may not be held liable for the loss or theft of or damage to candidates and will therefore pay no compensation.

The organizer committee will not be liable to any candidate or third party for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages for participation in this contest, including, without limitation, profits or other immaterial losses

iv. Dispute

Candidates to the contest are deemed to accept these rules unreservedly and without exception. Any dispute of any nature relating to these regulations or to the contest will be resolved by the organizer committee in the spirit of these rules, its sole discretion and in the final resort. Candidates certify the authenticity and truth of any information provided to the organizer committee pursuant of these rules. The organizer committee reserves the right to eliminate any project which includes any misleading or inaccurate statements.

 

Within the laws of the People’s Republic of China, the organizer committee reserves the right to change these terms at any time. With respect to any unsolved issues about this contest, the organizer committee will complete the rules and provide interpretation