Open Innovation

Explore. Adapt. Innovate.

ATOA Open Innovation Principle

Free to Use. Free to Modify. Free to Develop. Free to Commercialize.

ATOA Open Innovation provides a starting point for engineering creativity.

Explore → Adapt → Develop → Prototype → Commercialize

You may use an ATOA Open Innovation as provided, modify it for your application, combine it with your own technology, develop new engineering solutions, and commercialize the resulting products.

Build on the idea. Create your own solution.

ATOA OPEN INNOVATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Effective Date: 01 JAN 2024
Last Updated: 08 OCT 2026

ATOA Scientific Technology PVT LTD provides selected engineering innovations through its Open Innovation platform to enable engineers, researchers, companies, entrepreneurs, and innovators to freely explore, use, modify, adapt, develop, and apply these innovations.

By accessing or using an ATOA Open Innovation, you agree to the following Terms and Conditions.

1. Free Use

ATOA Open Innovations are provided for free use.

Subject to these Terms, users may:

• Use the innovation as provided.

• Modify, adapt, redesign, or improve the innovation.

• Combine it with other technologies, materials, products, or systems.

• Develop prototypes and derivative solutions.

• Apply the underlying engineering principle to new applications.

• Use the innovation for research, development, and commercial purposes.

• Manufacture, market, sell, or otherwise commercialize products developed from the innovation.

No payment to ATOA is required for these permitted uses unless a specific innovation is expressly identified as subject to different terms.

2. Freedom to Modify and Develop

Users are encouraged to modify and develop Open Innovations according to their own engineering requirements.

The user may change:

Geometry → Materials → Architecture → Operating Conditions → Manufacturing Method → Control Strategy → Application

The resulting implementation may be optimized, redesigned, integrated with other technologies, or developed into a new product or engineering solution.

3. Commercial Use

Commercial use is permitted.

Users may develop Open Innovations into:

• Products

• Components

• Engineering systems

• Manufacturing processes

• Software or computational implementations

• Research and development programs

• New applications

• Commercial services

• New businesses or business units

Users may manufacture, sell, distribute, and commercialize their own implementations and derivative products.

4. Intellectual Property

ATOA retains ownership of intellectual property that it already owns unless expressly stated otherwise.

However, making an innovation available through the ATOA Open Innovation platform grants users the freedom to use, modify, adapt, develop, and commercialize the innovation as permitted by these Terms.

Open Innovation does not automatically transfer ownership of ATOA's existing patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other registered intellectual property.

Where an innovation is based on or incorporates intellectual property belonging to a third party, the rights granted under these Terms do not extend to that third-party intellectual property.

5. Derivative Innovations

Users may create new or improved engineering solutions based on an ATOA Open Innovation.

Users may independently develop:

ATOA Open Innovation → Modification → New Engineering Design → Prototype → Product → Commercial Application

Ownership of newly created intellectual property arising from the user's independent modifications or developments shall be determined according to applicable law and the circumstances of the development.

Nothing in these Terms requires the user to assign newly developed intellectual property to ATOA.

6. Attribution

Attribution to ATOA is appreciated but is not required unless specifically stated for a particular innovation.

Where attribution is provided, users may state that their work is:

“Based on an ATOA Open Innovation.”

Attribution must not imply that ATOA endorses, certifies, manufactures, or commercially supports the user's product unless ATOA has expressly agreed to such involvement.

7. No Obligation to Work With ATOA

Users are free to develop and commercialize an Open Innovation independently.

Use of an ATOA Open Innovation does not require the user to:

• Engage ATOA for engineering services.

• Enter into a technology-transfer agreement.

• Enter into a licensing agreement.

• Form a partnership with ATOA.

• Share revenue with ATOA.

• Obtain approval from ATOA for modifications or commercialization.

Users may independently take the innovation from concept to product.

8. Optional ATOA Engineering Support

Although Open Innovations are freely available, users may request ATOA-Assisted Innovation services when additional engineering support is required.

ATOA may provide, subject to a separate agreement:

Concept Development → CAD/CAE → Multiphysics Simulation → Optimization → Digital Prototype → Physical Prototype → Validation

Such services are optional and are not a condition of using an Open Innovation.

9. Safety and Engineering Validation

Users are responsible for determining whether an Open Innovation is suitable for their intended application.

Before commercial or operational deployment, users should independently evaluate:

• Performance

• Reliability

• Structural integrity

• Material compatibility

• Manufacturing feasibility

• Environmental performance

• Safety

• Regulatory compliance

• Applicable industry standards

An Open Innovation is an engineering starting point and does not constitute certification or approval for a particular application.

10. No Warranty

Open Innovations are provided “as is” and “as available.”

ATOA does not warrant that an innovation will:

• Meet a particular performance requirement.

• Be suitable for a specific application.

• Be commercially successful.

• Be free from engineering errors or limitations.

• Satisfy a particular regulatory requirement.

Users are responsible for engineering validation and application-specific development.

11. Third-Party Rights

Some innovations may involve or refer to third-party technologies, materials, software, standards, patents, publications, or other intellectual property.

The freedom granted by ATOA applies only to rights controlled by ATOA.

Users are responsible for determining whether their implementation requires permission from third-party rights holders.

12. User Responsibility

The user assumes responsibility for the use, modification, development, manufacture, commercialization, and deployment of an Open Innovation.

Users are responsible for ensuring that their implementation complies with applicable laws, regulations, safety requirements, standards, and intellectual-property rights.

13. No Endorsement

Use of an ATOA Open Innovation does not create an endorsement, certification, partnership, agency relationship, or representation that ATOA is involved in the user's product or business.

14. Changes to the Open Innovation Platform

ATOA may add, modify, update, or remove Open Innovations from the platform.

Changes to the platform will not affect rights already granted under these Terms for an innovation, except where required by applicable law or where the applicable innovation-specific terms state otherwise.

15. Innovation-Specific Conditions

Most ATOA Open Innovations are intended to be freely usable under these Terms.

If a particular innovation has additional or different conditions, those conditions will be clearly identified on the relevant innovation page.

Where innovation-specific conditions conflict with these general Terms, the innovation-specific conditions apply to that innovation.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, ATOA shall not be liable for losses, damages, claims, or consequences arising from the user's use, modification, manufacture, commercialization, or deployment of an Open Innovation.

Users are responsible for their own engineering decisions, implementation, testing, and commercialization.

17. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of [India].

Any dispute shall be subject to the jurisdiction of [Bengaluru, Karnataka, India], unless otherwise agreed in writing.

18. Contact

For questions regarding Open Innovation: OpenInnovation@atoa.com