Rules, Procedures

1. The TnTn! Contest is open from 28 January 28 2016 to 28 March 28 2016 to all Filipino Students, Researchers, Inventors, Manufacturers, Designers with the exception of current Directors, Officers, and Employees of the DOST who are not eligible to participate.

2. To encourage full and active participation, there will be no limit to the number of submissions.

3. Official Entry Forms may be downloaded from www.ptri.dost.gov.ph and submitted to the attention of the Director, Philippine Textile Research Institute or for provincial entries, to the attention of the Regional Director (see attached Directory) and submitted through the nearest Provincial S&T Office/Director/Coordinator. Entries may also be submitted online.

4. Submission will be as follows:

1. Soft copies of proposals accompanying entry forms must be in PDF, briefly and concisely stated;
2. One  (1)  page  abstract,  description/drawings, diagrams and/or pictures to maximum of three pages; double spaced, in Arial font 12;
3. Margin will be one inch on all sides with page numbers typed consecutively e.g. 1 of 10, 2 of 10,… at the center of the bottom margin of each page.

5. All entries must be submitted no later than the time stated below:

6. An entry will only be considered submitted after official confirmation by the Organizer through the website or by the PTRI administration.

7. For the purpose of eligibility, a contestant is considered a resident of the region if:

1. he/she is actually a resident with at least six months of residency in the region/area; and
2. contestant’s principal address is within the said region.

8. Three sets of the following documents, which, with the exception of item a) must all be notarized and have to be submitted sealed inside a long brown envelope with only the title of the invention written or typed in the addressee section of the envelope:

1. Digital copy of the Official Entry Form with the proposed design,
2. Grant/Assignment of Rights ;
3. Consent form (from parents, schools and/or community elder/s), if and as applicable;
4. Student entries must be duly endorsed by the Department Head and the College Dean or the University/SUC President;
5. Entries of Out-of-School Youths (OSYs) should be duly endorsed by the local inventor’s organization or any member of the local government unit;
6. Certification that their work is their own, new and original;

Note: Forms a, b, c and fare all available in the website.

9. The DOST Regional Office (RO) will pre-screen entries based on compliance with the requirements stated in Item C.8 of this Guidelines. All documents submitted are subject to final examination by the Board of Judges.

10. In submitting an entry, the Contestant accepts the rules and guidelines of the contest, grants and assigns to the Organizer the concurrent and non-exclusive right to exercise the full copyright and all other intellectual property rights granted to the inventor and the inventor’s assignees, with respect to any winning work(s), to the extent permitted under existing laws applicable at the time of exercise. The grant and assignment also extends to all forms of storage, transmission, dissemination, and communication, presently existing or subsequently created. To the extent permitted by law, the grant and assignment of rights shall be worldwide, continuous, and may be exercised by the Organizer for the maximum time allowed by applicable law. Consistent with government-funded research developments, revenue that may be derived from the use of the invention shall be subject of agreement between the PTRI and the inventor/s and in no case be contrary to the provisions of DOST Administrative Order No. 004, Series of 2015 otherwise known as the Department of Science and Technology Intellectual Property Policy.

11. An invention which has been published/produced between 01 January 2015 to 28 January 2016 may be entered in the contest; an invention that have won or which has been awarded a prize in another contest before 12:00 m.n. of 14 March 2016 (Philippine Time), on the other hand, shall no longer be eligible for the TnTn! contest.

12. In submitting an invention, a contestant represents and warrants that the work is his/her own and that he/she has absolute ownership of all intellectual property rights thereto. If the entry is an adaptation of another inventor’s existing design, the contestant shall submit the written consent of the inventor of the existing design, allowing the contestant to adapt the work, and to enter the adaptation in the contest [Consent (adapted work/s)]. The Consent shall include a clear and categorical statement that the PTRI shall be exempt from any and all liability in the event that the adaptation is said to infringe the intellectual property rights of the inventor of the existing invention.

13. Winning entries will be featured in information and promotional materials of the PTRI in tri-media format including website and other electronic media. In initiating TnTn!, PTRI intends purely to assist the industry, promote weaving appreciation and public awareness of the industry, and not to commercially exploit the same. It is presumed that the inventor has agreed to such inclusion of the entries, winning or otherwise, in the PTRI TnTn!  promotion and information campaign.

Directory of Regional Offices

TnTn Directory DOST Regional Offices