Prior to submitting your proposal, carefully review Terms of
Submission. This document is to
ensure that all parties understand the process.
Terms of Submission for Idea
Generator
Teleflex welcomes any outside submission
that is made voluntarily
and is free of any legal encumbrance such as a duty of
confidentiality or obligation to a
third party. All parties making submissions should take adequate
steps to legally protect
their idea or invention, including, where appropriate, seeking
or obtaining patent
protection.
Please include in your Submission details regarding any
pending or issued patents
related to your submission. If no such application has been filed,
you should sign and date
your descriptions and drawings, and preferably have them witnessed
by a third party.
Please carefully review the Terms of Submission.
Submission of your idea or
invention serves as an acceptance of these Terms. Regretfully, we
cannot proceed with any
consideration of your Submission until these Terms are
accepted.
Terms of
Submission
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My Submission does not violate
the rights of any third party,
including, but not limited to, a duty of confidentiality
regarding the idea or
invention, trade secret rights, contractual rights,
obligations to license or assign, or
any other intellectual property of proprietary
rights.
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I understand that at this time
Teleflex is under no
obligation to treat my Submission as confidential, and
it is at the sole discretion of
Teleflex to determine whether to treat my Submission as
confidential, regardless of its
content or method of submission.
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I agree that I will not rely on
any current or future alleged
trade secret rights or other proprietary rights for any
legal claims against Teleflex
relating to my Submission.
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Acceptance of these Terms does
not grant any patent rights to
Teleflex under pending or granted patents related to the
Submission. I understand that
Teleflex is under no obligation to seek or to obtain
patent rights for my Submission on
my behalf.
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I understand that Teleflex may
have developed, had suggested
to it, or in the future may have suggested to it many
potential products, inventions,
and/or ideas, and there is the possibility that some of
these potential products,
inventions, and/or ideas may be similar to my
Submission. Therefore, I agree that
Teleflex remains free to use any potential product,
invention, and/or idea in the public
domain, or otherwise available to Teleflex.
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I agree that Teleflex is under no
obligation to consider or
use any part of my Submission and submitted materials
may not be returned or preserved.
I agree that Teleflex can make copies of my Submission
materials.