Contest Rules: 2007 Mothers of Invention Challenge

ByABC News via logo
February 9, 2007, 4:45 PM

Feb. 10, 2007 — -- "Good Morning America Weekend" kicked off its third 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 $10,000 plus a 5 percent royalty from the net sales of the invention. See full official rules below for complete details.

All entries should be postmarked by March 24, 2007, and must be received by April 2, 2007. 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.

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., Amazon Services LLC, 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.

"Good Morning America Weekend's" Mothers of Invention Challenge (the "Promotion") begins 7:00 am ET on February 10, 2007 and all entries should be postmarked by March 24, 2007 and must be received at the Post Office Box by April 2, 2007. All entrants must send a standard VHS, DVD, DV or Beta tape (other formats may not be considered), 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 inventor should also briefly describe herself and her family in the video tape submission. 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 prior years' challenges are strongly encouraged to update their submission.

American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC"), Mom Inventors Inc, West & Associates, A PC. , and Amazon Services LLC (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 March 24, 2007 and must be received by April 2, 2007. 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 stored and/or disposed of at the conclusion of the Promotion. Sponsors cannot provide technical support and accept no responsibility for insuring the receipt of or viewability of your entry.

It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to notify American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. in writing if the entrant changes his/her e-mail address or mailing address. To do so, write to: Good Morning America Weekend's Mother's of Invention Challenge, P.O. Box 830, Alamo, CA 94507. Notification must be received by April 19, 2007. By entering this Promotion, participants agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of judges and Sponsors, which are binding and final in all matters relating to this Promotion.

By entering, participants agree to indemnify, defend, release, discharge and hold harmless American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Mom Inventors Inc., West & Associates, A PC, Amazon Services LLC, and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotional agencies and prize suppliers and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives from any and all claims, liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to death or personal injury arising out of a participant's participation in the Promotion and/or acceptance or use or misuse of prize, and any claims based on rights of privacy, rights of publicity, false light, defamation, copyright and/or trademark infringement. By entering this Promotion all finalists grant permission to the Sponsors to use their respective names, video tapes, photographs, likenesses, images, voices, prize information and/or biographical information (city and state only) for Good Morning America Weekend (including their licensees) programming, publication, publicity and promotional purposes without compensation, review or approval unless prohibited by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

The invention must be an original concept submitted by the inventor. Do not incorporate the protected works of others in your entry. Sponsors may disqualify such entries and take all other measures Sponsors may deem appropriate so as to protect their interests. Entries must not currently be entered in any other promotion, contest or competition. Entries that contain any content determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion as indecent, inappropriate, and morally objectionable or otherwise unfit for broadcast will be immediately disqualified. Entries not satisfying these Official Rules in any respect will be disqualified. In submitting the entry, entrant understands and agrees that the invention is a "submission" as defined in the Terms of Use of www.ABCNEWS.com; and, as such, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., subject to the terms of the Invention Summary and Confidential Non-Disclosure Form owns any and all rights to use the videotape. (For ABCNEWS.com's Terms of Use, direct your Internet browser to the Legal Terms page). In the event of a conflict between these Official Rules and the Terms of Use, the Official Rules shall govern.