Announcement for International Competition of Architectural Conceptual Designs for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics National Speed Skating Oval

X. Other Stipulations

1. One tender for one bidding

For this international competition of "Architectural Conceptual Designs for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics National Speed Skating Oval", each competition applicant shall participate in the prequalification independently.

2. Intellectual property rights of competition entry designs

2.1 No documents submitted by contestants for this design competition shall be returned.

2.2 The contestant shall be entitled to authorship for his competition entry design, and may review and exhibit his competition entry design through communication media, professional journals, books, magazines or other formats, upon written approval of the sponsor regarding the contents of the publicity.

2.3 The sponsor may print, publish or exhibit designs entered for the competition, and may review, exhibit and publicize the works entered for the competition through communication media, professional journals, books, magazines or other formats.

2.4 Neither the contestant nor the sponsor shall use the competition entry designs for any other project than this competition project.

2.5 The contestant shall ensure that all design documents submitted shall be free of, and exempt from, any infringement upon any other party's intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, authorship and patent rights), proprietary technology, or commercial secrets, within or outside the People's Republic of China. In the event that the contestant's design document uses or includes any intellectual property right, proprietary technology, or business secret of any other person(s), the contestant shall have obtained the rights owner's legitimate, valid and adequate authorization. The sole and whole liabilities incurred from the contestant's infringement upon any other party's intellectual property rights, proprietary technology, or business secrets, shall be borne by the contestant.

2.6 For the duration of the competition, the intellectual property rights of all technical documents provided by the sponsor belong to the sponsor. The contestant can only use such documents for the purpose of formulating prequalification application documents or competition documents. The contestant shall not use the above documents for other engineering designs or other purposes, or reveal such to any third party, without the sponsor's written approval. The sponsor reserves the right to pursue all liabilities arising from the contestant's infringement on the sponsor's intellectual property rights or from revelations of secrets.

3. Notarization and supervision

This international competition for the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Architectural Conceptual Designs for the National Speed Skating Oval" shall be conducted under the supervision of notary organs.

4. The laws and regulations applicable to the documents for this competition itself and related to this competition shall only be the relevant laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China and of the Beijing Municipality.

5. All documents relevant to this competition event, prequalification application documents, competition entry documents, and all correspondence and documents between the contestants and the sponsor relevant to the competition entry documents and the competition event, shall be written bilingually in Chinese AND English. In case of any inconsistency between the English and Chinese versions, the Chinese version shall prevail.

6. The ultimate right to interpretation of the competition event lies with the sponsor.

Sponsor: Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning

Agency: Beijing Sci-Tech Auction & Tender Company Ltd.

Date: June 6, 2016

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