The student design contest is sponsored by IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 and CCET, 114 West 7th Street, Suite 1210, Austin, Texas 78701.

Your entry constitutes the Contestant(s) agreement to these legal terms and conditions.

Material Integrity

By entering the Contest, each individual submitting Contest Materials represents and warrants to the Sponsors (CCET and IEEE) that:

• Such individual is the person identified on the Contest registration form;
• The individual and the Contest Materials fully comply with all eligibility requirements and all other provisions of these Official Rules and any Policies;
• In preparing Contest Materials and entering and participating in the Contest, the individual has complied and will comply in all respects with all applicable statutes, regulations, rules, orders, or other laws and has not violated, and will not violate, any agreement or understanding by which it is bound, including any confidentiality, employment, consulting, intellectual property assignment or license agreement;
• That the individual is not bound by any intellectual property agreement or any other agreement or obligation, with an employer, co-owner or otherwise, that prohibits, limits or affects: (a) the individual's ownership of the Contest Materials; (b) the individual's right to submit the Contest Materials to the Sponsors; or (c) Sponsors' license rights in the Contest Materials and in such individual's Contestant's name, photograph, voice, likeness, logo, and biographical information as set forth herein;
• The Contest Materials are unpublished and consist entirely of the individual's own original work or of work to which such individual has all necessary rights; and
• Neither the Contest Materials nor the exploitation of the Contest Materials as provided herein will infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property, rights of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any person or entity.

The Sponsors (IEEE and CCET) reserve the right to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest in their sole and absolute discretion if the Contest becomes technically corrupted or is not capable of being run as planned, including, but not limited to, as a result of infections by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsors that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest. In such event, the Sponsors will post notice on the CCET Website and will implement an alternate means for awarding all prizes.

Copyright and License

All entries submitted in connection with the Contest shall remain the property of Contestants, although Sponsors may retain print and electronic copies of the Contest Materials in perpetuity if they choose to do so. As a condition of entering the Contest, Contestants agree that CCET shall have the exclusive right, but not the obligation, for a period of 2 years after the conclusion of the Contest, to negotiate with any Contestant or Contestants to license the Contest Materials, including but not limited to all inventions described therein, all works of authorship contained therein, and all intellectual property rights attendant thereto, on a worldwide basis.

Neither CCET nor any Contestant shall be obliged to enter into any such license concerning any Contest Materials or the rights associated therewith, but CCET and Contestants shall be required to negotiate in good faith concerning such a license should CCET choose to initiate negotiations with a particular Contestant. During the 2-year period in which CCET shall have the exclusive right to negotiate a license concerning Contest Materials with any Contestant, no Contestant shall be permitted to assign, license or otherwise transfer the Contest Materials or the right to exploit any or all intellectual property rights associated with the Contest Materials to any third parties other than CCET, and/or shall not exploit themselves the Contest Materials or any or all of the intellectual property rights associated with the Contest Materials.

The parties to any license negotiated in accordance with the terms of this paragraph agree in advance that the license shall provide for royalties of 50% of net revenues that may be obtained through the exploitation of the Contest Materials or any intellectual property rights associated with any Contest Materials to the Contestant(s) who submitted those Contest Materials, as well as such other terms as may be negotiated by the parties to the license. If a contestant receives an offer or inquiry concerning licensing the contest materials, the contest shall give CCET a written notice of such inquiry, including a copy of the offer or inquiry, if it is in writing.

Accountability

By entering, each Contestant releases and holds harmless the CCET, IEEE or, any other entities involved in the administration of the Contest, each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents (collectively, the "Sponsor Parties"), from any and all responsibility, damages ( including without limitation direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, and statutory damages) , penalties, costs, liabilities, and losses of any kind arising out of or relating to: ( i) participation in the Contest; ( ii) any violation by the Contestant of these Official Rules, any Policies, or any laws; ( iii) any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of publicity, or other intellectual property misappropriation or infringement attributable to Contestant, his or her design, or any other Contest Materials submitted by Contestant . Without limiting the foregoing, the Sponsor Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage to Contestants or any other person's computer related to, or resulting from participation in, or downloading any material in connection with, the Contest. If anyone makes any claim against any of the Sponsor Parties arising out of or relating to any of the Causes attributable to a Contestant, such Contestant will pay for any damages, penalties, costs, liabilities, and losses, including without limitation attorneys' and experts' fees and costs, incurred by any of the Sponsor Parties in connection with such claim.

IEEE and CCET may, within their sole discretion, require each prize winner to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release, in which each winner consents to the use of his or her name, age, hometown and photo by IEEE and CCET for advertising and promotional purposes, without any additional compensation, wherever lawful, as a precondition to award of a prize. If any prize winner fails to sign and return the requested affidavit of eligibility and liability/public release as requested by IEEE and CCET, that winner may be disqualified, and his or her prize will thereafter be awarded to an alternate winner from the remaining valid entries using the criteria specified above.

Agreement with Official Rules

By participating in this contest, participants agree to abide by the terms and conditions as established by IEEE and CCET. IEEE and CCET reserve the right to qualify all submissions and to reject any submissions that do not meet the requirements for participation as established by IEEE and CCET.

Contest Results and Official Rules

Contest results will be posted on CCET's website.
Legal Information - Annual CCET/IEEE Student Design Contest