Official contest rules and conditions

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

1. To enter the contest: Entries will be accepted via the contest Web site at http://www.manus.igus.com or via mail, fax or email. You must submit all required information and e-mail a media file (photograph or drawing) proving the existence of your application in order to submit your application electronically. Entrants submitting their application by mail or fax must include a completed entry form, a description of the application, an outline of the problem, a photograph or drawing of the application and a detailed description of the solution. Applications must be received no later than midnight, January 31, 2004.

No purchase is necessary to enter or win, and purchase will not affect your odds of winning. The manus committee assumes no responsibility for late, lost, damaged or misdirected entries. Entry must be acquired personally, made by an individual entrant and may not be acquired or accumulated through the use of automated computer scripts or other programming techniques.

2. Eligibility: Eligibility is limited to persons at least 18 years of age, who are legal residents of the United States or its territories and possessions and Canada. This contest is operated pursuant to the laws of Rhode Island, void wherever prohibited or restricted by law. Employees (and their immediate families and household members) of igus Inc. (“Sponsor”) their parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, agents and advertising and promotion agencies are not eligible.

3. How to Win: All entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Sponsor and the judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to the contest. The panel of judges shall review all eligible applications, (those involving all-plastic or plastic-compound bearings and with significant proof of existence) and select the top three most creative and ingenious applications.

4. Prizes: Grand Prize, which will be awarded to the 1st place selected application, is $5,000 cash, a certificate of recognition and a gold manus statuette. Second Prize, which will be awarded to the 2nd place selected application, is a $2,500 cash prize, a certificate of recognition and a silver manus statuette. Third Prize, awarded to the 3rd place selected application, consists of a $1,000 cash prize, certificate of recognition and a bronze manus statuette.

All properly claimed prizes will be awarded. Only the prizes specified in the numbers indicated will be awarded. All winners are required to comply with all reasonable requests for tax identification. Odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible entries received.

5. Prize Notification: Winners will be notified by telephone and e-mail.

6. Announcement of Winner: Announcements will be made on the manus Web site, the Design News web site and the igus Web site and the list of winners will be posted on all sites between February 23-26, 2004. You may request the winners’ names, available between February 26 to May 26, 2004 by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to: manus, PO Box 14349, East Providence, RI 02914.

7. Conditions of Participation: Participants agree to be bound by these rules and all decisions of the contest judges, whose decisions will be final. By entering the contest, each entrant grants to Sponsor and its agents and others working on their behalf the right to publish (in print or electronic/Internet media) their written entries and any supplemental photographs or drawings. By accepting a prize, each winner grants to Sponsor, its agents or others working on their behalf the right to photograph the winner, to use the winner’s name, picture, likeness and city and state of residence for advertising and marketing purposes and to post (electronic/Internet media) at the discretion of Sponsor without additional compensation, unless otherwise prohibited by law. The publication rights described herein refer only to the materials submitted as the manus plastic bearing design contest entry. All entrants entering applications in the manus contest assign to Sponsor the right to publish (in print or electronic/Internet media) their entries.

Prize must be claimed within thirty (30) days of first attempted notification or will be forfeited. Unclaimed prizes and all prizes that Sponsor is unable to award in the event that there are not enough eligible entries will be returned to Sponsor. All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications caused by the sender, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest which may limit processing of the entries in this contest. If, for any reason, (including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause beyond the control of Sponsor, which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this contest), the contest is not capable of being conducted as described in these rules, Sponsor shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. If the contest is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted at http://www.manus.igus.com. Any attempt to deliberately damage the content or operation of this contest is unlawful and subject to legal action by Sponsor or its agents.