Avoid Unnecessary Conflict, Improve Time to Market, Preserve Relationships--and Ultimately Get What you Need Developers and clients hotly debate which should own or just have a limited license (or as some customers argue no license) to intellectual property (IP) developed by the contractor. Res...
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Helpful news & articles from Tom KcKeever, a Business-Focused Legal Partner for Technology Companies from Emerging to Large-Scale Enterprise.
Vendor Contract Negotiation: Best Practices & Tricks of the Trade
In this video, technology transactions attorney Tom McKeever discusses how to improve vendor outcomes for your business, save a few bucks, and lots of headache. Overview Be Clear about what you want from Vendor/Service Providers Pre-Negotiation Preparation & Process Overview Negotiating...
Clickwrap Agreement Enforceability
A clickwrap agreement is an online contract formed when a user indicates acceptance of by clicking a button or checking a box on a website or software application. Clickwrap agreements are commonly used to govern the use of online services and apps.
Does your SaaS Agreement Encourage Low-Friction Deals? Is it Tailored to Your Service?
SaaS services require a substantially different customer agreement than old-school software products.
Four Surprising Ways Outside Counsel Can Help your Business
In the age of Google for legal research and LegalZoom for quickie contracts, it can seem as if hiring an attorney is an unnecessary business expense. But the adage "you get what you pay for" can be true when it comes to do-it-yourself internet legal solutions. Sometimes, there's no substitute for...
SaaS Fundamentals -- Key Terms for your Business
Before you can offer SaaS services, you need a SaaS agreement. This document will spell out the terms and conditions for how your customers will and won't use of your service. SaaS is markedly different from the old business model of perpetual on-prem software licensing. As a result, you and you...
The Power of Simple Tech Agreements: Why Plain Language is the Best Approach & How to Do It
In tech, we've all faced incomprehensible contracts, dense customer agreements, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) licenses that take three hours to read. There is a better approach. In this blog, we'll explain why keeping all of your legal agreements in simple, understandable language will make yo...