Contest Rules: Mothers of Invention Challenge

ByABC News via logo
February 4, 2006, 12:34 PM

Feb. 11, 2006— -- "Good Morning America Weekend" kicked off its second annual Mothers of Invention Challenge today, in partnership with Mom Inventors, Inc. If you're a mom who has a great idea for a new invention, you can enter to win. One grand prize winner will receive $5,000 plus a five percent royalty from the sale of the invention. See full official rules below for complete details.

All entries must be postmarked by Wednesday, March 15, 2006, and must be received by Saturday, March 25, 2006. Please see contest rules below for complete information and entry requirements.

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OFFICIAL RULES
"Good Morning America Weekend" Mothers of Invention Challenge

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

Eligibility: Promotion is open only to female inventors who consider themselves to be or to have been a mom, who are legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C. and who are 18 years of age or older. For minors, entries must be accompanied by parental consent. Void outside of the United States and where prohibited. Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within six months prior to the start date of the Promotion and thereafter, performed services for American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Mom Inventors Inc. or any organization responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Promotion or supplying prizes, and/or their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win. "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses, regardless of where they live. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year, whether related or not.

Entry: Good Morning America Weekend's Mothers of Invention Challenge (the "Promotion") begins 7:00 am ET on or about Saturday, February 11, 2006 and all entries should be postmarked by Wednesday, March 15 and MUST be RECEIVED at the Post Office Box by Saturday, March 25, 2006. All entrants must send a standard VHS, DVD, DV or Beta tape, no longer than 3 minutes in length, discussing the origin and purpose of and showcasing their invention. The video must show the actual inventor and, to her best ability, visually and verbally illustrating and describing her invention and its features and benefits. The video must be accompanied by an Invention Summary and Confidential Non-Disclosure Form , collectively the entry ("Entry"), to Good Morning America Weekend's Mothers of Invention Challenge, P.O. Box 830, Alamo, CA 94507. Only videotaped entries with accompanying AND signed paperwork will be accepted, do not send prototypes of the invention with the entry. Entries to a post office box should be made using one of the available services of the United States Postal Service; post office boxes can not receive deliveries from an overnight or other courier delivery service other than those delivery services provided by the United States Postal Service. The entry must be from the actual inventor. Limit one entry per person for the Promotion. Multiple entries will result in the disqualification of all of your entries. All entries must be received at the PO Box address. Entries delivered to any other address will NOT be considered. Any previously submitted video tapes may not be in compliance with modified entry requirements. Entrants from last year's challenge are strongly encouraged to update their submissions.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC") and Mom Inventors Inc. (collectively "Sponsors") will not be responsible for late, lost, incomplete, illegible, damaged, garbled, technically corrupt, postage-due or misdirected entries. All entries should be postmarked by Wednesday, March 15 and must be received by Saturday, March 25, 2006. No tapes, Invention Summary and Confidential Non-Disclosure Form, including video entries will be acknowledged or returned. All such tapes and documents will be securely disposed of at the conclusion of the Promotion. Sponsors cannot provide technical support and accept no responsibility for insuring the receipt of your entry.