[Things don't stand still in the world of data privacy. Check out our December 15, 2022 update here]. Is your head spinning trying to keep up with headlines about personal... read more →
In a non-compete clause, one party promises not to compete with the other. In IT contracts, customers sometimes ask their professional services providers for non-compete terms. The service provider promises... read more →
Today, we updated one of Tech Contract Academy's key sample contract forms: the Hybrid Cloud Agreement with Professional Services. It's available to you, along with the rest of our forms,... read more →
The feedback license appears in many tech contracts. It usually gives the vendor a broad, perpetual license to any "feedback" from the customer's staff: any suggestion about the vendor's products... read more →
By David W. Tollen Tech industry professionals use “intellectual property” to describe two different creatures. They also use “IP lawyer” for a broad list of professionals with little in common. Few... read more →
by David W. Tollen and Nathan Leong You’re a lawyer looking for online software and other tools to run your firm—tools like email, word processing, calendaring, timenotes, legal research, and... read more →
By Phil Brown and David W. Tollen Lawyers love tradition, but many clients want to communicate with 21st Century tools. Texting, Skyping, SnapChatting: all of these would mystified most lawyers... read more →
We’ve posted a new contract in the forms library — and it’s available in MS Word (no charge, as always). It's meant to serve as a customer's primary contract for... read more →
Capterra's IT Management Blog just published an article by David Tollen: 5 Simple Rules for Negotiating Software and IT Contracts. It's a customer-focused articles, addressing five mistakes customers tend to... read more →
We've posted a new contract in the forms library -- and it's available to you in MS Word (no charge, as always). The new form is for professional services by... read more →
We've just updated all the clauses and contracts at TechContracts.com to address the Defense of Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the "DTSA"). That includes the NDA's and the other contracts... read more →
Managing and sharing big data creates technical challenges unlike anything found in traditional data-sharing relationships. But big data contracts don’t involve a whole new field of legal knowledge. If you’ve... read more →
In an earlier post, I explained that the standard "feedback license" arises out of a misunderstanding of IP -- and generally asks too much from the would-be licensor. After some... read more →
When one party has to protect information belonging to the other, we tend to pull out a nondisclosure agreement: an NDA. Or if we don't want a separate NDA, we... read more →
