INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION:

The policy of PESO is that teams will retain all the intellectual property rights to their entries. The PESO Challenge organizing team shall treat the business plans and executive summaries as the confidential property of the entrant teams and have implemented confidentiality procedures in order to ensure that all information is kept confidential. However, upon the request of interested parties, the PESO Challenge organizing team may provide public summaries of the business plans briefly describing the technology and/or innovation covered by the business plans, which description shall be pre-approved by the teams concerned.

The judges and mentors shall also agree to treat the entries as confidential and will sign a confidentiality agreement not to disclose, not to use, and to excuse themselves in the event of a conflict of interest with respect to any competitor or business plan.

A copy of the Confidentiality Agreement which will be signed by the PESO Challenge organizing team, the judges and mentors can be found below.

Confidentiality Agreement

 

 

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