Drafting Nondisclosure Agreements for Information Technology Transactions
Negotiating Key Provisions and Exclusions, Navigating Challenges for Information Disclosers and Recipients
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance to technology and business counsel for drafting NDAs for information technology transactions. The panelists will discuss specific language for confidentiality provisions, including the clause language and extensive research notes they have found effective in their practice.
Outline
- Key provisions in NDAs
- Definition of confidential information
- Restrictions on use and disclosure of information
- Exclusions to disclosure prohibitions
- Return of confidential information
- Enforcement and remedies
- Challenges and best practices with NDAs
- For discloser
- For recipient
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What complex legal and business issues must technology and business counsel consider during NDA contract negotiations?
- What are the key provisions that should be included in information technology NDAs?
- What are some best practices for avoiding and resolving disputes arising during contract negotiations?
Faculty
Satya Narayan
Atty
Royse Law Firm
Ms. Narayan focuses her practice on intellectual property protection, licensing and commercial transactions.... | Read More
Ms. Narayan focuses her practice on intellectual property protection, licensing and commercial transactions. She provides counsel on best practices in technology (including use of open source), commercial, and privacy issues, and assists clients with identifying and protecting intellectual property assets. She routinely structures, drafts, negotiates and provides counsel on technology-related transactions spanning hardware and software distribution arrangements, affiliate arrangements, cloud, SaaS, and e-commerce service arrangements, consulting and development arrangements, joint ventures, strategic alliances and spin-outs. She represents clients ranging from start-ups to established public companies and multinational companies, including software, e-commerce, cloud, digital media and content, semiconductor, solar, and medical device companies.
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D.C. Toedt, III
Attorney
On Contracts
Mr. Toedt's practice focuses on representing technology-focused companies. He edits and... | Read More
Mr. Toedt's practice focuses on representing technology-focused companies. He edits and publishes the Common Draft public library of contract clauses and templates, with extensive annotations and explanations. In addition, he lectures at the University of Houston Law Center, teaching advanced contract drafting and negotiation. He was formerly a partner and member of the management committee at Arnold, White & Durkee, a 150-lawyer intellectual-property boutique litigation firm.
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