Technology Contracting: Law, Precedents and Commentary provides comprehensive, invaluable information relating to transactions and agreements that technology-oriented companies enter into throughout their life cycle. In each chapter, there is a discussion on the law that is relevant to negotiating and drafting particular types of agreements. In all the chapters, practical suggestions are presented for drafting and negotiating clauses and provisions within the agreements. In a number of chapters, checklists are provided both for due diligence and for agreements or both. A number of annotated agreements are provided in relation to the various types of transactions.

The book includes key contracts and transactions that are of interest to technology-oriented companies

• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
• Employee and independent contractor agreements
• Venture capital finance agreements
• Patent licensing
• Intellectual property due diligence and strategies
• Cross-border licensing
• Co-development and co-marketing agreements
• Software systems development agreements
• Software licences, maintenance, and escrow agreements
• IT outsourcing
• And, finally, dispute resolution