Terms and Conditions for Submission of Innovation/Expressing Interest in Innovation
www.agnii.gov.in is a website developed and managed by AGNi, a project of Invest India, a non-profit company incorporated under Company Act, 2013. Invest India is the National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency of India and acts as the first point of reference for investors in India.
Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations or AGNIi
is a national initiative of the Government of India under the guidance and support of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. It is an initiative that aims to support the ongoing efforts to boost the innovation ecosystem in the country by connecting innovators across industry, individuals and the grassroots to the market and helping commercialise their innovative solutions.
In order to taking innovation to the market, this website has developed “National Innovation Showcase” to provide a platform to the innovator to showcase their innovation which can be seen and evaluated by the corporates, industry and other users of innovation for commercialization of innovation. Publication of innovation on this platform is entirely voluntary and free for the innovator. Further, this website does not charge any money from the persons showing interest in the innovation.
Persons uploading innovation or using/expressing interest in innovation must note that these conditions are in addition to “Conditions of use of website” and “Privacy policy” of this website; and those conditions are applicable in additions to these conditions mentioned here.
Terms and conditions for person uploading information:
The submission of innovation information on this portion of the Web site is subject to the following terms and conditions, as may be modified from time to time. The terms and conditions set forth below supplement the general terms and conditions governing your use of this Web site. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions or are dissatisfied with any of the conditions of use of this Web site or conditions of submissions of innovation information for publication in National Innovation Showcase, your sole remedy is to not use the Web site and to not submit any information. You are required to read and understand the following conditions carefully and accept it before submitting any innovation information.
(i) You expressly declare that you have legal right to submit/publicize the information and by submitting the information you are not violating any law, particularly not violating any intellectual property right of any other person.
(ii) You expressly acknowledge that you shall be solely responsible for any violation of law; including but not limited to patent, copyright, trademark, geographical indication, design, employment law violation etc., and this website shall not liable for any third party claim for publicity of this information. You expressly indemnify this website from any third-party liability or claim related to showcasing/publicizing innovation information submitted by you.
(iii) You expressly agree and acknowledge that all of the information submitted by you in connection with your application is truthful and does not contain any misleading or false statements. You further agree and acknowledge that, in the event any information submitted by you in connection with the innovation is found to be false or misleading, this website may immediately reject your application.
(iv) By submitting an application for innovation showcasing with this website, you are certifying that you are not subject to any confidentiality obligations or employment agreement that limits your ability to publicize this innovation. You expressly declare that you have the right/permission from your employer, if required to share this information with this website.
(v) The person applying to AGNIi understands that publishing his/her innovation on the “National Innovation Showcase” is entirely at the discretion of AGNIi/Invest India and the application may not be published or facilitated without assigning any reason, based on evaluation process of AGNIi. This website will be free to upload contents from the application on the National Innovation Showcase (videos, images, pitch deck, patent info etc.) partly or fully, or edited or improved or amended version of the uploaded information to promote the innovation. Further, this website can also publish the information/share the information on other website/media for the purposes of propagating information about the innovation without any specific permission from the person uploading the information/innovation. The person uploading the innovation understands that the published/shared information may be edited or improved or amended version of uploaded information and may not be the same as uploaded.
(vi) The person uploading innovation understands that publication of innovation in National Innovation Showcase does not mean that the innovation has been certified for quality, authenticity, functionality, technology, usefulness or in other manner by AGNIi/Invest India.
(vii) Mere publication of innovation in National Innovation Showcase does not give any right to the person uploading information to use name/logo of AGNIi/Invest India in any manner with the innovation.
(viii) The person uploading the innovation understands that mere publication of innovation in National Innovation Showcase does not mean that the innovation has been bootstrapped, funded or incubated by AGNIi or Invest India. Further, it does not give any right to the person uploading innovation for any financial support or funding.
(ix) The person uploading the innovation understands that mere publication of innovation in National Innovation Showcase does not guarantee anything like funding support, acceptance by industry, commercialization etc.
(x) The person uploading the innovation understands that the publication in National Innovation Showcase services are provided by this website without any charges and it does not create any legal relations in the nature of consumer or client or any other relationship of such type.
(xi) The website shall take all reasonable efforts to ensure that the uploaded information is used for the intended purpose only, that is propagation of innovation. The innovation uploaded may be published on the “National Innovation Showcase” or on any other website or may be made available to third parties etc. This website may also reveal any information uploaded by you in connection with any lawful process.
(xii) While this website will take reasonable measures to guard against misuse of information submitted to it by you, this website cannot guarantee that someone will not misuse the information or overcome our security measures, including, without limitation, the security measures implemented on this Web site. Therefore, your posting of information on this Web site constitutes your acceptance of this risk, and by posting/uploading of information/innovation, you waive any right to seek legal relief from this website due to any misuse of your information.
(xiii) All disputes are subject to jurisdiction of courts in National Territory of Delhi.
Terms and Conditions for person using/expressing interest in innovation information:
(i) The person using information/expressing interest in innovation has read and understood the “Terms and conditions for person uploading information” based on which this information has been uploaded in “National Innovation Register” and bound by the conditions, wherever it is applicable to him/her.
(ii) The person using the information understands that the innovation belongs to the person who has uploaded the information, and the information may be subject to patent, copyright, design, trademark or other privileged information. Before using any such information, the person using the information is required to take specific permission from the person who has uploaded the information.
(iii) The person using the information understands that innovations showcased in “National Innovation Showcase” has not been approved or certified by AGNIi or Invest India in any other manner.
(iv) The person using the information may negotiate directly with the person who has uploaded the information for any right in information in the nature of, but not limited to, technology licensing, transfer, permission etc. This website shall not participate/be part of any such negotiation.
