Enterprises, institutions, universities and research institutes, design studios, individuals and groups from around the world can all participate in the competition and shall satisfy the following conditions:

1.Participants shall have independent IPRs to the works submitted for the competition;

2.No other organizations or individuals filed any application to the China National Intellectual Property Administration about the same creative concepts or products before the date when the works are submitted;

3.The same creative concept or product can only be submitted to one competition group;

4.Works submitted to the creativity group must be works of original conceptual design with independent IPRs related to appearance design and other aspects; works that are the same as or similar to released works, works awarded the second prize or above in global or national design competitions or works designed for the third party must be presented with agreements of authorization from Party A before participation. Any legal responsibility arising from a participant’s plagiarizing other people’s works or stealing business secrets shall be taken by the participant himself/herself, and the Organizing Committee of the competition has the right to cancel his/her qualification for participating in and winning awards at any stage of the competition;

5.Works submitted to the product group must be works that have been industrialized or are to be industrialized by the enterprises or design institutes in the previous year, involve no IPRs disputes and have never been awarded prizes in the event. They shall be tangible and high-value industrial products or consumer goods that have innovative design points in appearance, structure, material, function, color or their combinations and be pragmatic.

Shortlisted works must show creativity in the form of pictures, models, videos or products, and corresponding road show oral defense materials shall be submitted as well. The sponsor will entrust Jiangsu Sunshine Huiyuan IPRs Operation Co., Ltd. to provide free IPRs application service for the works shortlisted for the creativity group. Proof of IPRs authorization shall be submitted in the product group. 

The real objects or models of shortlisted works must be displayed at the booth of China (Wuxi) International Design Expo Taihu Award, or the qualification of being shortlisted will be deemed as being given up voluntarily.

Achievements management ：

(I)participating works are owned by their authors. The Organizing Committee of the competition has the right to promote, display or publish the works submitted for the competition or promote or publicize them in any other form. Without authorization of authors, no organizations, individuals or third parties shall redesign, produce, sell, publicize, publish or display the works submitted for the competition or promote or publicize them in any other form, or the authors will retain the right to pursue legal liability. 

(II) As for the participating works with industrialization prospects, the Organizing Committee of the competition can organize connection between the participants and corresponding enterprises to industrialize the results of design. 

(III) Promotion materials for the event will be developed to display and promote it both at home and abroad and improve its reputation and influence.