We celebrate your ambition and appreciate your interest in sharing your invention with us. The following form is in place to protect your rights, as well as your idea. In hopes of avoiding future misunderstandings, we ask that you please review the following disclosure. Thank you!

The Kennin Company will evaluate your idea with or without patent, but only under the following conditions:

1. In consideration for the Kennin Company evaluating your idea, you agree that the Kennin Company is released from any and all obligations to you in connection with the manufacture, sale, or use of your idea or any portion thereof except such obligations as may result under valid, unexpired patents which may have been granted or may be granted in the future. the Kennin Company as used herein includes subsidiaries, divisions, dealers, officers, employees, agents, and servants of the Kennin Company.

2. All submissions or disclosures of ideas are voluntary on the part of the submitter. No obligations or confidential relationships, either expressed or implied, are assumed by the Kennin Company with respect to any idea submitted. In order to evaluate your idea, the Kennin Company may have to disclose the idea to persons outside the Kennin Company. Consequently, the Kennin Company is under no obligation to maintain the idea in secret or confidence.

3. Copies of all ideas submitted to the Kennin Company may be kept by the Kennin Company to prevent future misunderstandings regarding the scope of the submission. Any lawsuit or other action based on use by the Kennin Company of an idea not the subject of an issued U.S. patent submitted by you under this program must be filed no later than four (4) years after you disclose said idea to the Kennin Company. The Kennin Company does not have any obligation to reveal any information concerning its evaluation of your idea or concerning present, or future activities in any field.

4. Ideas will be considered with the understanding that the use, if any, by the Kennin Company of such ideas is within the sole discretion of the Kennin Company.

5. Unless and until you obtain the rights described under Condition No. 6 below, should your unpatented idea be utilized, compensation to be paid by the Kennin Company shall be a sample of the product incorporating your idea. 

6. Patented ideas and ideas covered by pending applications for patent will be considered only with the understanding that the submitter agrees to rely for his protection solely on such rights as he may have under the laws, including but not limited to patent and industrial design laws, of the United States and/or of any foreign country. If submitter owns a patent covering the Kennin Company’s use of your idea, then an agreement, such as a royalty-bearing license, a purchase of the patent or the like, can be negotiated.

7. All Kennin Company employees are subject to and entitled to the terms and foregoing conditions.

8. The preceding terms and conditions may not be modified or waived.

If the conditions of the letter are acceptable to you, please sign and date below. By submitting your electronic signature, you represent that you have the power to enter into this agreement and to disclose the idea to the Kennin Company​.

Forms not completed in their entirety will not be reviewed.

The Kennin Company​

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