Rules

RULES

The following rules apply with respect to the Ericsson Application Awards 2013.

§1 General
§1.1 Words and phrases with initial capital letters shall have the meanings given to them in Ericsson Application Awards 2013 Terms and Conditions.
§1.2 Ericsson reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, prohibit and suspend a Student, a Company and/or a person representing a Company from the Contest.
§1.3 All content created and submitted by the competing teams must be in English.
§1.4 The submitted application must be an original work (i.e. it shall not have been published or made available for a third party).
§1.5 The Students and the Companies respectively own the intellectual property rights to the – by the team – submitted application, however, with Ericsson reserving the right to use the submitted application for demonstration and testing and other purposes, all in accordance with the provisions in Ericsson Application Awards 2013 Terms and Conditions. Terms & Conditions
§1.6 Award nominees and winners are selected by the jury of the Contest. The decision of the jury is binding and cannot be appealed.

§2 Participants
§2.1 The Contest consists of two (2) competition categories, the Student Category and the Company Category. Participation at Ericsson Application Awards 2013 is open - in respect of the Student Category – to individual students of higher vocational and academic studies, and – in respect of the Company Category – to companies which has no more than one hundred (100) employees world wide.
§2.2 Each competing team must consist of 2-4 persons.
§2.3 Employees of any company within the Ericsson Group and/or their immediate family members are not entitled to participate in the Contest.
§2.4 Those Students registered as team members of a team competing in the Student Category at the last date of submission of application will be deemed to be the submitting team. Those persons registered as team members of a team competing in the Company Category at the last date of submission of application will be deemed to represent the Company in the Contest.
§2.5 It is the responsibility of the Students and Companies to ensure that the registration of its team is accurate. Ericsson will not take any actions to correct any faults nor receive any complaints of any person that claims to wrongfully have been removed from or added to a team.

§3 Technology
§3.1 The submitted application must run on the Android platform (Web or Native)
§3.2 The submitted application must address the theme.

§ 4 Jury
The Contest will have a jury (a panel of experts from different companies) that select top 5 teams in each category and select the winners at the prize ceremony event.

§ 5 Contractual Documents
§5.1 The participation in the Contest is governed by (i) Ericsson Application Awards 2012 Terms and Conditions, (ii) these rules, and (iii) in respect of a Company, the submitted application form.
§5.2 In case of inconsistencies, the documents will prevail in accordance with the order in §5.1, unless an explicit reference has been made in the subordinated document to the effect that a specific provision shall prevail notwithstanding certain provisions in the superior document.