276.41S sec. 001 - Advanced IT Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating (Summer 2022)
Instructor: David William Tollen (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
TuTh 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Location: Law 170
From June 07, 2022
To June 16, 2022
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Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 22
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 45
As of: 10/18 06:15 PM
Students learn to write and negotiate cloud services contracts, software licenses, and other technology contracts. The goal is to prepare you to practice as a transactional attorney in the IT industry.
The primary content is a clause-by-clause review of the key terms in the bread-and-butter contracts of the IT industry. But the course will also include content that is not clause-specific, including a review of the IT industry and its particular legal concerns and an exploration of open source software.
Finally, the course will involve brief take-home work -- particularly preparation of contract clauses, based on hypotheticals -- as well as in-class moot negotiations and other peer-to-peer interaction.
This is not a course on IP licensing. That topic, however, will play an important role.
The course content does not include basic training on how to write a contract, but some of that knowledge is necessary or at least very helpful. Students will do best if they have worked on contracts in a legal clinic, taken a workshop involving contract drafting and/or negotiation (not just a first year Contracts class), done contract-drafting as a paralegal or contract manager, or practiced law in a transactional setting.
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home examination
Course Category: Business Law
This course is listed in the following sub-categories:
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
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