New Amateur Furniture Design Contest with Furniture Manufacture Brand Rocka

BRAND ROCKA invites designers of superior hospitality furniture to showcase their talents by designing furniture for BRAND ROCKA. BRAND ROCKA will award and will publicize the winning designs as described below.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Overview.
Brand Rocka is an industry-first program that recruits, facilitates, and eventually produces great furniture designs by the best of the emerging designers around the world. Rocka encourages contestants to upload designs for outdoor, indoor, and office furniture, as these are the main categories the company manufactures in. Designs must also be appropriate to BRAND ROCKA’s manufacturing capabilities.

Entrants are encouraged to review the BRAND ROCKA website www.brandrocka.com to familiarize themselves with the products BRAND ROCKA has manufactured. Entrants may either submit a single design or a collection of designs that would be suitable for the BRAND ROCKA furniture collection. BRAND ROCKA is open to any design style from any country culture. BRAND ROCKA reserves the right to give an award fee and percentage of turnover fee to a single design, a collection, or a portion thereof.

Remuneration: If chosen as one of the winners of the design contest you will receive an award fee, a percentage of all future sales of your product that is sold to wholesalers globally. The award fee will be in the range of 2.000 to 5.000 USD depending on the designs market sales potential nationally or internationally. The percentage fee is 4% for the first 2 years and 2% therafter.

The upfront award fee will be paid within thirty days after a design has been chosen and the ongoing sale fee is paid  2 times a year on 1st July and 31st December. Images of the winning design(s) will be displayed at the BRAND ROCKA web site and an international press release will be sent to PR and media agencys worldwide.

The names of the winning designers will be credited along with the designs when they are posted on BRAND ROCKA`s Hall Of Fame at www.brandrocka.com.

BRAND ROCKA intends to manufacture the selected designs (or collections) for sale to furniture wholesalers globally, and will credit the winning designer with placards posed on or adjacent to any winning designs that are displayed in stores. BRAND ROCKA reserves the right to modify the winning designs as appropriate for production, including
specified finishes. BRAND ROCKA also reserves the right not to manufacture any selected design. BRAND ROCKA is responsible for all production and marketing of selected designs.

Entrants:
You must be at least 18 years of age to enter. Entrants may be individuals or teams of individuals who are named. Companies employing the winning entrants will be credited at the option of the winning individual entrants.
 
Format:
Entries must be submitted in Auto CAD, 3-D rendering, pencil drawing in pdf format, scannrd image or a blueprint, and must be scaled. Entries must be received by BRAND ROCKA by electronic upload in the designers back office.

License to Manufacture:
Entrants are required to abide by all United States and international intellectual property laws, including trademark and copy write. Entrants represent, warrant, and agree that any and all ideas, concepts, designs, drawings, packages, line extensions, works of authorship, derivative works, processes, methods, information, developments, materials, discoveries, inventions, improvements, software, and/or any other intellectual property or rights, whether patentable or unpatentable, and whether subject to any other intellectual property right protection or not (hereinafter “Work”) conceived, created or developed by entrants for this contest, solely or jointly with others, shall be original or in the public domain and shall not infringe any patent, copyright, or other proprietary right of any third person.

Work selected for use by BRAND ROCKA shall be the sole and exclusive property of BRAND ROCKA. Entrants assign and agree to assign to BRAND ROCAK any and all of Entrant’s right, title, and interest in and to such Work, including without limitation, all intellectual property rights in any such Work throughout the world. Such intellectual property rights shall include, without limitation, utility and design patents and patent applications and reissues thereof, copyrights (including derivative works either existing or to be created by or for BRAND ROCKA, such as modifications of original designs, line extensions, and any other derivative works), trade dress and trademarks, trade secrets, con?dential information and any other valuable intellectual property rights. Contractor shall have no rights to retain or use any of such Work. If for any reason the foregoing assignment is unenforceable, winning entrants grant and agree to grant to BRAND ROCKA an irrevocable, nonexclusive, perform, sell, distribute (internally and externally) copies of, prepare derivative works based upon, or otherwise exploit any Work, and the right to authorize others to do any of the foregoing.

BRAND ROCKA will not have the right to use designs that are not selected as winning designs without the prior written agreement of the entrant. BRAND ROCKA will not return any designs to the entrants.

Judging:
Judging will be performed by the sitting members on the BRAND ROCKA International Advisory Board. Decisions of the Advisory Board members are final and non-appealable. BRAND ROCKA reserves the right to disqualify any entrant violating these rules.

Other Rules:
BRAND ROCKA shall not be liable for the actions or inactions of any person, including entrants. These rules may be amended at any time by BRAND ROCKA. Any amended rules will be effective immediately upon posting at www.BRANDROCKA.com.