Verkaufs-, Liefer- und Lizenzbedingungen
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1 Scope of Application
(1)
These Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence shall be applicable to all
sales, respectively deliveries of hard- and software-products and
services like consultancy, training and support of Igel Technology GmbH
(further referred to as: “IGEL”) to undertakings in accordance with §
14 German Civil Code or legal entities of the public law (further
referred to as: “Customers”). The bold – typed emphasises serve only
for better orientation of the readers and have no subject-matter
meaning.
(2) These Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence are a
substantial part of all offers, acceptances of contracts and sales
contracts of IGEL. They are the exclusive contract regulations with
each customer, as long as there are no specific individual rules for
contracts.
(3) IGEL does not acknowledge general terms of trade of
the Customers , as well as when in a particular case IGEL does not
explicitly object, unless IGEL has approved the application of these
Customer’s terms explicitly and in writing. These Terms for Sale,
Delivery and Licence also apply exclusively when IGEL starts
performance of a particular contract without a specific reservation
despite knowledge of Customers’ terms of trade which are contradictory
or different from the present Terms,
(4) These Terms for Sale,
Delivery and Licence are also applicable for all future transactions
with Customers and even if IGEL does not explicitly indicate that its
terms shall apply; and until IGEL puts into effect new terms. The
incorporation of the new terms into the business relation between IGEL
and the customer becomes effective when IGEL indicates explicitly that
there are new terms in effect and makes them available on the IGEL –
webpage on the internet.
(5) With the exception of the managing
director, the procurists and the trade representatives, the staff
members of IGEL are not entitled to meet agreements deviating from the
present terms.
§ 2 Offers and Conclusion of Contracts
(1)
Offers by IGEL are always non-binding (the so called “invitatio ad offe
rendum”), unless they are indicated in writing as binding. Except that,
a binding agreement shall be reached when IGEL confirms explicitly and
in writing the order of the Customer or starts performance of delivery.
The Customer is bound by its order/its offer for one week, provided
that there is not a longer binding period agreed or customary, or the
Customer has declared in its order/or in its offer explicitly a shorter
binding period.
(2) For the determination of the articles of the
delivery and the specific terms of the contract IGEL`s written
confirmation of the order is solely authoritative. Collateral
agreements have to be always approved in the form provided in § 21,
Sec. 4 (final clauses) of these Terms of Sale, Delivery and Licence.
(3)
IGEL reserves all rights, in particular the ownership and the
copyright, on any preliminary estimate of costs, designs, plans or
specific technical documentation, which IGEL provides to the Customer
before or after the conclusion of the contract. Without the approval of
IGEL the Customer is not allowed to provide, to copy, to duplicate, to
deliver or othe rwise to give any information to third parties. Those
have to be returned to IGEL immediately upon request.
(4) In case
that there were agreed special provisions for a particular order, they
will expire with the completion of particular order and will not have
any effectiveness to other orders running at the same time or fo
llowing ones.
§ 3 Price
(1) All prices appointed
by IGEL as well as processing and printing expenses, unless otherwise
agreed by the parties, are valid “net ex works” in terms of § 21 Sec. 2
(final clauses) of these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence, that is
without the expenses for packing, loading, insurance (in particular
transport insurance), duties and taxes, transport costs and turnover
tax.
(2) All the prices are regarded as in EURO, unless another currency is explicitly appointed in IGEL`s confirmation of the order.
(3)
In case costs increase unforeseeable and extraordinary like by means of
price increases of the suppliers or currency fluctuations, IGEL is
entitled to appoint further increasing prices to the Customers.
§ 4 Foreign trade
(1)
In case of deliveries to foreign countries these Terms for Sale,
Delivery and Licence shall be applicable together with the
“International Commercial Terms” (“Incoterms”) published by the
International Chamber of Commerce in their newest redrafting provided
that in the confirmation of the order, respectively in the binding
offer, IGEL refers to one of the concerned Incoterms (for e.g. by means
of the clauses “cif”, “ex work”, “fob”, etc.).
(2) Import duties,
fees for consultation and different levied taxes/fees based on
regulations of the country of destination are generally not included in
the appointed prices of IGEL (accordingly to the simultaneously
applicable § 3 Sec. 1 of these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence).
When in case of exception taxes shall explicitly be included in the
price, the agreed price increases accordingly if the tax rates
increases after the conclusion of the agreement.
(3) IGEL is only
obliged to comply with foreign regulations for packing, weighting and
duties if the Customer gave detailed information for that in advance.
§ 5 Permission for Export and Import
The
delivered products and technical know-how of IGEL are designated
exclusively for use and remaining in the country of destination as
indicated by the Customer. The re-exportation of the goods appointed in
the contract – individually or collectively – is governed exclusively
by the regulations for foreign trade of the Federal Republic of
Germany, respectively by the regulations of the country of destination
agreed with the Customer. For the delivery of products which are
subject to a resale price fixing and/or a distribution restriction, the
specific terms and regulations for export (for e.g. embargo) of the
referred manufacturer shall be also applicable besides these Terms for
Sale, Delivery and Licence. The Customer is obliged to inform itself
autonomous for the corresponding regulations and namely for the German
terms by the Federal Office For Export, 65760 Eschborn/Taunus and the
US- terms by the US- Department of Commerce, OEA, Washington DC 20230.
Not depending on whether the Customer has indicated a definite place of
destination for the products, it is always incumbent on the Customer to
obtain the required permission from the competent authority for foreign
trade before the exportation of the products. The Customer is solely
responsible for the compliance with the applicable regulations to the
ultimate consumer.
II. CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
§ 6 Payment, Delay
(1)
IGEL`s contract claim for payment is due immediately at the delivery of
the products and without deduction. The Customer is in delay for
payment when he doesn’t perform payment during the period of 14 days
after the due date and after the receipt of the invoice but at latest
30 days after start of delivery. An earlier delay for payment based on
the statutory legal regulations shall be unaffected.
(2) Provided
there is nothing different agreed, IGEL is not obliged to perform
first. When as a case of exception there is exclusively agreed an
obligation of IGEL for performance in advance, § 321 of the German
Civil Code shall apply under the additional condition that the rule
applies when the Customer has breached the agreed terms of payment of
the same or other contracts of the respective business relation.
(3)
IGEL reserves the right to reject cheques and bills of exchange from
the Customers. The acceptance of similar surrogates of payment is
always regarded as conditional performance. The bill of exchange will
be accepted in every case only under the precondition of discount
eligibility. Discounts, cancellation expenses and bill of exchange tax
as well as other expenses in connection with the acceptance of the
different surrogates of payment shall be charged to the Customer.
Credit notes for bills of exchange or cheques are regarded as valid
under the condition of receipt of the invoiced amount; that is the
value date on which IGEL can dispose of the equivalent sum.
(4) When
after the conclusion of the contract IGEL issues its invoice to another
person than to its contract partner (the Customer) generally no
alteration of the contract partner and in particular no discharge of
the Customer from its obligation for payment should be acknowledged as
IGELs consent for a cumulative assumption of the debt and not as
consent for a taking–over of the contract.
(5) The Customer will be
charged with € 5,00 for each reminder for payment after the due date.
It does not affect the legal rights of IG EL by law.
(6) In case of
a delay in payment or of protest of the cheque or of the bill of
exchange or in case of other circumstances, which entitle IGEL to
demand a cash advance or provision of security, IGEL may terminate any
agreement for extension and granted period of payment with the Customer
referred to the entire business relation between IGEL and the Customer.
§ 7 Set-off, Retention, Assignment
(1)
The Customer is only entitled to set off a claim or to retain payment
when its counterclaim is not contested by IGEL or it has been declared
as final and conclusive by a German court. The same applies also for
the customers right to plea of nonperformance of the contract pursuant
to § 320 of the German Civil Code.
(2) The Customer is not entitled to assign claims from the contract to third parties without the written approval of IGEL.
§ 8 Delivery
(1)
IGEL will perform delivery of the products or services as soon as
possible. The appointed period/date of delivery is generally not
binding, unless IGEL confirms explicitly and in writing the appointed
period/ the appointed date to be binding. The time of the dispatch ex
works or ex stock, or the notification for the readiness for dispatch,
shall be authoritative for the determination of the adherence with the
period of delivery in case the goods are not dispatched in due time
without IGEL’s fault. The period of delivery shall be prolonged to
another individually agreed term, if the Customer does not perform the
owed cooperation for delivery (see § 9 of these Terms for Sale,
Delivery and Licence).
(2) In case that the parties have not agreed
a binding delivery term, respectively date of delivery, IGEL shall be
in delay with its obligation to deliver and to perform, when the
Customer sends a reminder to IGEL indicating a reasonable period of
grace and when the period has unsuccessfully expired and the further
legal preconditions have been met.
(3) IGEL shall perform delivery
under the condition of exact supply in good time through IGEL’s
suppliers. A delay of delivery or non-performance of delivery that
result from a failure of IGEL’s suppliers (without any cooperative
fault of IGEL) shall not be considered as a fault of IGEL.
(4) IGEL
shall not be responsible for a delay of the delivery or of the
performance as a result of force majeure or similar circumstances,
which derive from circumstances which IGEL cannot influence after the
conclusion of the contract, e.g. industrial action, official directive,
and also when these circumstances appear in the sphere of IGEL’s
suppliers or sub-suppliers. In these cases the period of delivery is
prolonged until the duration of the obstacle including a reasonable
initial period, but not longer than six months. After the expiry of its
period both parties are insofar entitled to withdraw from the contract.
The same applies if a party suffers significant disadvantages by the
delay or non-performance.
(5) IGEL is entitled of partial delivery
as long as it is appropriate for the Cus tomer. In such cases IGEL is
entitled to issue partial invoices.
(6) In case that the supply
according to the request of the Customer is delayed as a result of a
Customer’s failure to perform a required cooperative act (for e.g.
delivery of additional devices and parts for reconstruction), or the
Customer does not accept the delivery item, or the delivery is not
performed because the Customer fails to perform its obligation for
payment, then IGEL is entitled to demand for a compensation for the
additional expenses which occur, and in particular the expenses for
storage. The expenses for storage can be charged from the beginning of
one week after the notification of the readiness to dispatch with 0,5%
lump sum of the invoiced sum for every month. The Customer is entitled
to prove to IGEL that there are not any expenses or that the occurred
expenses for storage are considerably minor. IGEL reserves the right to
prove higher expenses. Except that, the IGEL`s right to withdraw from
the contract or to claim compensation on the ground of statutory law
shall not be affected.
§ 9 Duty and Obligation of the Customer to Cooperate
(1)
In case the effectiveness of the contract or the performance of the
contract requires specific permissions or licences (for e.g. licences
for import or export) or similar, they are to be obtained by the
Customer, unless the parties did not agree explicitly something else.
(2)
The customer is furthermore obliged to cooperate timely in accordance
with the contract and good faith, in particular to obtain the required
permissions and to provide the additional devices and parts for
reconstruction.
(3) IGEL is entitled to fix a reasonable term to the
Customer for the performance of the act of cooperation (for e.g. the
request for a necessary permission). After the unsuccessful expiry of
the period IGEL is entitled to withdraw form the contract. When the
required licences or permissions are not provided until the expiry of
three (3) months after the conclusion of the contract IGEL is entitled
without further preconditions to withdraw from the contract.
§ 10 Passage of the Risk
(1)
The risk passes to the Customer when the products are handed over to
the first carrier for transmission to the customer (for e.g. forwarding
agent, carrier or similar) for loading, if transportation through IGEL
is agreed the risk passes to the customer when loading begins, but at
latest when the goods leave the factory as place of performance (comp.
§ 21, Sec. 2 of these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence). The same
applies even if IGEL has undertaken the expenses for the transport or
has undertaken another performance like the installation.
(2) If
IGEL performs the dispatch of the products later than the first
possible date of delivery upon request of the customer or on similar
grounds deriving from the Customer’s sphere, then the risk shall pass
to the Customer at the moment of notification of the readiness for
dispatch by IGEL.
(3) An insurance of the products like against
theft, break, transport, fire or water damages or similar risks will be
provided by IGEL only upon explicit request of the Customer and will
always be at the expense of the Customer.
(4) Sending backs of the
products to IGEL travel - reserving other explicit agreements – at the
expense and under the risk of the Customer.
§ 11 Retention of Title
(1)
IGEL retains the title of the goods until full payment of all accounts
receivable which are existing and which can accrue in the future from
the business relation with the Customer. At the entry of a running
account with the Customer the entire retained property serves to secure
the claim for the balance of the account. As long as according to the
Customer’s national law the validity of its retention of title depends
on particular preconditions or formal requirements (for e.g. on a
registration), the Customer is obliged to fulfil at its own expenses
the preconditions or the formal requirements for the validity of the
retention of the title.
(2) In case of a breach of the contract of
the Customer, in particular in case of a delay for payment or in case
of an application for a proceeding for insolvency, IGEL is entitled to
request from the Customer the purchased objects back without any grace
period to be fixed, or in the same case, to request the assignment of
the claim for return of property against third parties. The withdrawal
of the goods and the seizure of the reserved goods by IGEL shall not be
regarded as a withdrawal of the contract by IGEL, unless it is declared
explicitly and in writing. The Customer shall undertake the expenses
for the withdrawal. IGEL is entitled to utilize the revoked reserved
goods after a single warning. The difference between the profits of
utilisation and the expenses for the utilisation will be at the expense
of the Customer.
(3) The Customer is entitled to resell the retained products within the scope of an
orderly
business operation, as long as he is not in delay, and/or there is a
filed application for beginning of insolvency proceedings over its
property or he is obliged to apply for insolvency proceedings. In case
of resell of the reserved goods on credit, the Customer is obliged to
secure the rights of IGEL on the reserved goods. Hypothecation,
transfer of ownership by way of security, further transfer to the
financing of the goods (for e.g. to leasing company) or transfer of the
use to third parties are allowed to the Customer only by prior written
approval by IGEL.
(4) If the Customer resells the reserved products,
thus he assigns to IGEL its claim from the resell for payment together
with all the accessory rights in order to secure the claim of IGEL. The
Customer is authorised until the revocation for the collection of the
sum due from the resell . However, IGEL can request from the Customer
to notify its debtors for the assignment. With the revocation of the
authorisation for the collection the Customer has to notify IGEL for
the required data for the collection about the claim and in the same
case to support IGEL to claim for the accounts receivable.
(5) The
Customer is obliged to keep diligently and at its expense in custody
the products in (co-)ownership of IGEL, to insure them against theft,
break, fire, water or similar damages and to prove the termination of
the insurance upon IGEL’s request.
(6) The Customer has the further duty during the retention of the property to keep the
purchased
objects in proper conditions and to admit necessary repairs immediately
to be performed in one of the IGEL’s authorised qualified workshops .
(7)
Seizures of third parties over the retained products have to notified
by the Customer to IGEL immediately after the Customer becomes known of
that. In such a case the Customer shall transfer all the necessary
information and documents for each intervention to IGEL. The Customer
is liable for the expenses which arise from the lift of the seizure in
particular by lodgement of intervention as a third party on seizure, as
long as they cannot be attained by the pursued creditors.
(8) In
case of connection of the retained products with other new integrative
products, the co-ownership of the new product is due to IGEL. The share
in the co-ownership is defined according to the proportion of the value
of the reserved objects towards the invoice value of the other objects.
(9)
If on the ground of legal provisions the Customer acquires the sole
ownership over the new product, thus the customer and IGEL shall agree
that IGEL will keep the coownership of the new product in proportion of
the value of the integrated purchased objects towards the invoice value
of the other product. The Customer shall keep in custody the new
objects for IGEL free of charge.
III. DEFECTS, WITHDRAWAL AND COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES
§ 12 Defects and Rights
(1) IGEL guarantees that the delivered goods and services have no considerable defects at the passage of the risk.
(2)
Details of the subject matter of the delivery, the appearance,
capacity, measurement and weight of the products, etc. that were made
at the conclusion of the contract in valid descriptions of the products
represent no guarantee, but only a description of the products, which
are only to be regarded as approximate. A guarantee is available only
when IGEL has appointed it explicitly and in writing as such.
(3)
When after the conclusion of the contract alterations shall be carried
out on any of the fixed products concerning the construction, material
and model and they are considered in the delivered products, these
alterations do not represent a defect of the purchased products , as
long as no deduction of the value of their usefulness occurs from that.
(4)
IGEL is not liable for public statements of third parties (including
the suppliers of IGEL or the manufacturers) when IGEL did not know
about these statements or was not obliged to know. IGEL is not liable
for public statements through IGEL or third parties when the statement
at the moment of the conclusion of the contract was already corrected
or when the Customer could not prove that the respective statement has
influenced its decision to purchase.
(5) The guarantee for defects and damages is excluded when they arise
-
because a definite construction or a definite material for the
purchased product was chosen under the instruction of the Customer,
- because the Customer has installed the purchased product or put it in operation incorrectly,
- because the Customer operates with the purchased product incorrectly or he does not use appropriate operating instruments,
- because the Customer has not considered the operation division or the rules for maintenance,
- because the Customer does not use the purchased product competently or overstrained,
-
because the Customer has attached external parts or components
(products by other manufacturers), although they were not permitted in
the operation division or after a written explanation by IGEL,
- because the Customer has decomposed or changed the purchased product without
the prior approval of IGEL,
-
because the Customer has installed incorrectly the purchased product
into another item (the installation in the other item might be
exclusively according to the regulations).
(6) The Customer loses
the right to rely on a lack of conformity of the product, when the
Customer does not give notice to IGEL specifying kind and nature of the
lack of conformity in accordance with the following rules:
- lacks
of conformity, which at the inspection of the product were
recognizable, have to be noticed in writing to IGEL within at latest in
five working days after the delivery of the product and before further
manufacturing/ processing/ usage (if possible under the dispatch of the
provided printed forms by IGEL),
- hidden lacks of conformity, which
at the inspection of the product could not be discovered, have to be
noticed in writing to IGEL within five working days after the discovery
of the defects. For the adherence to the term for the notice it is
sufficient to dispatch the notification of the lack of conformity in
due time.
(7) Complaints do not abolish the duties of the Customer
for acceptance and payment of the products, unless the defectiveness of
the products is not controversial or has already become res judicata.
(8)
If there is an existing lack of conformity in the purchased products,
IGEL is ent itled to its own choice to remove the defects, by means of
for example extra work/improvement of the products, or replacement of
the complained parts or to deliver another product without defects. If
one of these forms of additional performance is connected with
considerable disadvantages for the Customer, the Customer is entitled
to request the othe r type of additional performance.
(9) In case of
remedying a defect the repairing of the product, respectively the
substitute delivery IGEL bears the necessary expenses, in particular
the wage, material and freight expenses. Exchanged old parts of the
goods become property of IGEL.
(10) In cases of guarantee with
foreign Customers IGEL shall not generally bear the expenses and
similar specific expenses, which are connected with the place of usage,
respectively the exporting country of the purchased objects.
(11) If
within a reasonable term fixed by the Customer, which however must
amount to at least two weeks, it is not undertaken any attempt for
substitute performance or if the fixing of a term according to the
statutory law is not required as an exception, the Customer is entitled
to proceed to the other legal claims for lacks of performances, in
particular to reduce the purchase price or to withdraw from the
contract. If an attempt for substitute performance is undertaken at due
date, which has not tho ugh removed the lack of conformity, the
Customer is allowed to proceed to the other claims for defects after
the unsuccessful expiry of a further period for substitute performance,
unless as an exception it would be unreasonable for the Customer to
wait until these terms. In case of partial performance the Customer may
withdraw form the whole contract only if he has no provable interest of
partial performance and the breach of the duty is considerable. Claims
for compensation for damages due to the lack of conformity may be
established only under the preconditions appointed in § 15.
(12) If
as a result from an inspection of the products confirms that the
purchased products do not represent a lack of conformity, IGEL is
entitled to charge its expenses for the inspection according to its
general hourly rates of payment on the account of the Customer.
(13) The limitation period for claims for a lack of conformity amounts to one year from the delivery.
(14) The right of recourse of the buyers according to § 478 of the German Civil Code shall not be affected.
§ 13 Withdrawal
(1)
For the right of the Customer to withdraw from the contract apply the
statutory legal regulations under the additional condition that the
right to withdraw from the contract due to a lack of conformity that is
not a defect of the products occurred is only disputable, when IGEL is
liable for that breach of duty.
(2) IGEL is entitled in case of
withdrawal to calculate a monthly lump sum of 3% of the purchase price
for the realized profits from the use, as far as the buyer does not
prove a minor value of the emerged profits. The right of IGEL to prove
a higher value of the emerged profits shall be unaffected.
§ 14 Duty of IGEL to Compensate the Damages
(1)
IGEL is liable for a breach of duty in cases of intent and culpable
negligence as well as in case of a breach of a essential duty. As far
as a breach of a duty does endanger the purpose of the contract
(cardinal duty) IGEL is also liable in case of simple negligence.
In
other cases the claims for compensation of the damages are excluded.
The limitation of the liability shall not apply when IGEL has given
guarantee for damages, which have to be removed according to the Law
for Product Liability, as well as for damages of life, body and health.
(2)
When IGEL is liable for simple and culpable negligence, the liability
of IGEL is limited to damages which occurrence IGEL typically had to
expect at the conclusion of the act according to the known
circumstances.
(3) When IGEL is liable for simple negligence or
culpable negligence for the employees of IGEL or its representatives
who are part of the directors or the managerial employees the liability
is limited to the double sum of the respective purchase price.
Additionally IGEL is not liable for indirect damages, or damages
occurred by defects or for lost profits.
(4) The proof of a fault of
IGEL in the scope of the liability to compensate the damages has to be
conducted by the Customer, who requests the compensation for damages.
(5)
IGEL is not liable for defective products, which are based on a
defectiveness on supplied parts , unless IGEL has given guarantee
referring to it or the defect of the supplied part is evident. IGEL is
not obliged to inspect supplied parts.
(6) As far as through its
provision the liability of IGEL is excluded or limited the same applies
to the personal liability of the employees or the freelancers of IGEL.
(7)
The Customer is obliged to give notice immediately and in writing to
IGEL of the damages for which it wants to make IGEL liable, and if
necessary to allow an inspection of the damages.
§ 15 Duty of the Customer to Compensate the Damages
As
far as IGEL is entitled to request from the Customer compensation for
damages instead of performance, IGEL is entitled to request lump sum
for compensation for damages to the amount of 15% of the purchase
price, as far as the Customer does not prove minor damages. IGEL
reserves the right to claim for higher damages according to the
statutory provisions of law.
IV. SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
§ 16 Scope of the usage
(1)
The Customer is entitled to use the software exclusively or in
connection with the hardware manufactured and distributed by IGEL,
particularly terminals, Thin Clients, Thin Client Cards and Thin Client
Upgrade Kits.
(2) The right of use contains every permanent and
temporary, whole or partial duplicating (copying) through loading,
display, run down, transmission or storage for the purpose of execution
of the software. The execution of appointed actions for the purpose of
observation, examination or test of the specified software is also
included in the usage.
(3) The software should not be processed or
altered. The company names, trademarks, notes for copyrights or
different notes for reserved rights contained in the software should
not be altered and are taken over in altered and processed versions of
the software.
(4) A decompilation of the software code is admitted only under compliance with the limitations in §69e of the Copyright Law.
§ 17 Guarantee/ Liability
(1)
The following provisions under (2) to (7) are applicable supplementary
to III. Defects, Withdrawal and Compensation for Damages.
(2) The
Customer understands that it is not possible to develop a software to
extent, that for all conditions of application the software is always
free of errors. IGEL undertakes no guarantee that the software in all
areas and applications will function without interruption or
insignificant errors.
(3) IGEL guarantees that the software has the
particular functions which are indicated in the general product
descriptions and catalogues. IGEL undertakes no guarantee that the
software will correspond to individual requests of the Customers. The
Customer bears the sole responsibility for the selection and the usage
of the software as well as for thereby intended results. There is also
no guarantee for altered or processed versions of the software as long
as the Customer proves that the available defects have absolutely no
connection with the alteration or the processing.
(4) Each and every
liablility of IGEL is excluded as far and as long the customer does not
use or run the software with or in connection with IGEL-Hardware
(namely terminal, thin client, thin client cards, and thin client
upgrade kits).
(5) IGEL delivers the software “as is” and undertakes in particular no guarantee, namely neither explicit, nor implied.
(6)
IGEL is not liable for the loss of data or its restoration, unless the
Customer proves that a specific loss of data could not be avoided
through appropria te measures for securing the data on the part of the
Customer, neither the minimum daily preparation of security copies of
all data andsoftwares.
(7) IGEL is not liable for defected economic
result, lost profits, indirect damages, damages as result of defects
and claims of third parties.
V. MISCELLANEOUS
§ 18 Intellectual Property rights and Copyrights of Third Parties
(1)
As far as the delivered products were manufactured in accordance with
the drafts or designation of the Customer, the Customer has to
indemnify IGEL against all claims, arising from the breach of
intellectual property right and/or copyright which are exploited by
third parties.
(2) For deliveries of products to other countries,
IGEL is only liable for the purchased products manufactured in its own
factories for a breach of a patent, which is licensed in Germany. In
such a case IGEL is only obliged to support the Customer in and out of
court and in judicial proceedings against the patent holder, and to
compensate the Customer for the expenses for proceedings and to
indemnify IGEL against the final claims for compensation for damages of
the patent holders. In view of the purchased products, respectively
parts of them, which IGEL has manufactured but not in its own
factories, the liability is limited to the assignment of the claims
which IGEL owes against its suppliers.
§ 19 Spare parts
(1)
For the delivery of spare parts and accessories in exchange for old
parts at a special spare part price (so called “spare part delivery”),
the following specific provisions in Sections 2-4 shall be
simultaneously applicable.
(2) The old parts shall be supplied to IGEL completely freight paid and free of charge.
(3)
If the spare part is delivered by IGEL before the Customer has
delivered the old part, then IGEL, instead of the spare part price,
shall for the moment charge the valid price of a new spare part. After
the arrival of the old parts IGEL will credit the difference between
the new price and the price for replacement to the Customer.
(4) The
old parts become property of IGEL upon delivery. Through performance of
delivery of such old parts the Customer declares implicitly that the
Customer was owner of the old part, respectively that the Customer is
authorized to pass over the ownership of its old part to IGEL, and that
there are no existing rights of third par ties over its old part.
§ 20 Orders for Printing and Stamping
(1)
The customer shall inspect galleys and imprints for mistakes and shall
return them to IGEL cleared and ready for press. IGEL is not liable for
mistakes the Customer is responsible for. Telephonically transmitted
texts or alterations demand prior written approval of the Customer.
(2)
The liability is excluded for documents handed over by the Customer for
the performance of the order, lik e in particular films, clichés, data
carriers etc. (further called as “patterns”). After the expiry of a
term of two years IGEL is authorised to demolish the archived documents
without particular notification of the Customer.
(3) Through the
placing of the order the Customer shall not acquire ownership on the
creation of the copies and stamps, and similar needed tools. The
erasing or demolishing of these tools by IGEL follows after the
completion of the order.
(4) In case of orders for stamps or copies IGEL reserves added or minor delivery of up to 10%.
§ 21 Final clauses
(1)
These Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence are governed by the Law of
the Federal Republic of Germany. The application of uniform UN- rights
of purchase (CISG) is excluded.
(2) The place of performance for all
obligations in connection with these Terms for Sale, Delivery and
Licence is the factory as pointed out by IGEL in the confirmation of
the order (industrial premises). When the dispatch according to the
agreement between the parties have to be performed from the factory of
a third party, its factory shall be the place of performance.
(3)
Exclusive court of jurisdiction for all litigation consequent from this
business relation is Bremen. IGEL is entitled also on its part to sue
at the place of the registered office of the Customer.
(4)
Alterations of these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence, supplements
and representations demand written form for their effectiveness. The
same is also valid and in particular for annulment or alteration of
these written clauses. As far as the adherence of the written form is
required, the transmission by facsimile is sufficient also. An
electronic data transmission (e- mail) is only sufficient as far as
these are provided with a qualified electronic signature according to
the German Law for signature.
(5) If one ore more provisions of
these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence have to be or to become
ineffective or if these Terms for Sale, Delivery and Licence have to
include blank provision, the validity of the remaining provisions shall
be unaffected. The ineffective or incomplete provision will be replaced
through a similar rule, which meets closest the term and the purpose of
the desired provision efficiently.
IGEL Technology GmbH, March 2003