The Tech Contracts Handbook - 3rd Edition by David W Tollen (Paperback)

About the Book

This practical reference guide is ideal for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, IT staff, and anyone else responsible for contracts. Perhaps most important, The Tech Contracts Handbook is accessible, clear, and precise--like a good contract.

Book Synopsis

Written in a clear, plain-English style and updated and expanded for an everchanging world, The Tech Contracts Handbook is a complete resource for lawyers, contract managers, and anyone responsible for getting IT deals done.

Author David W. Tollen, one of the industry's leading authorities on technology contracts, took on the challenge to create a reference manual and training guide that covers cloud computing agreements, software licenses, and various other IT contracts.

Complete with negotiation tips, guidance on the business issues behind the terms, and sample contract language, The Tech Contracts Handbook covers all topics in technology contracts, including data privacy and security terms, warranties, indemnities, open source software, deconversion and transition, limitations of liability, SaaS escrows, copyright licensing, and service level agreements (SLAs).

This third edition provides a greater focus on some of the key concerns in IT contracts today including: clauses addressing rights in data, privacy, control of data, and data security. Updated to reflect current best practices in technology contracts, the book offers increased discussion on a variety of other terms, payment clauses, including indemnities, and other liability-related terms.

This handbook describes each clause typically found in a technology agreement, outlines the issues at stake, and offers negotiation tips and sample contract language. It addresses:

- Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other cloud services contracts

- On-premise software license agreements

- Software distribution contracts

- Software ownership transfers

- IT professional services agreements

- And more

The Tech Contracts Handbook is a useful, accessible, and essential resource for those in the IT contracts field.

Review Quotes

David Tollen's The Tech Contracts Handbook is a comprehensive yet concise summation and discussion of the principal issues involved in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating technology agreements. The book's insightful analysis of indemnities as well as data management privacy and security is especially helpful given the ever-increasing importance of these issues in today's technology agreements. -- H. Ward Classen, Author of The Practical Guide to Software Licensing and Cloud Computing

From cloud computing environments to hardware and software products, proprietary and open source licenses, and technology professional services agreements, we increasingly live in a digital world governed by information technology (IT) contracts. The Tech Contracts Handbook, written by one of the most experienced technology lawyers and educators, provides a concise, well-organized, and clearly written guide for lawyers and non-lawyers alike who need to understand and negotiate IT contracts. The third edition provides up to date explanations and practical insights about how to navigate the evolving IT contracts realm. Highly recommended. -- Peter S. Menell, Koret Professor of Law, Director and Co-Founder, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, UC Berkeley School of Law

About the Author

David Tollen is the founder of Tech Contracts Academy(TM), which provides in-house and public training on IT contracts, for both lawyers and businesspeople--including contract managers, procurement officers, and IT staff. He's also the author of the ABA's bestselling manual on IT agreements, The Tech Contracts Handbook: Cloud Computing Agreements, Software Licenses, and Other IT Contracts for Lawyers and Businesspeople.

In his practice, Mr. Tollen represents buyers and sellers in technology transactions, particularly IT outsourcing contracts and other large-scale agreements. He also provides advice and assistance related to e-commerce, social media, industrial design, and intellectual property. He practices in San Francisco with a law firm he founded, Sycamore Legal, P.C.

Mr. Tollen graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley. In addition to his legal work, he's the author of an award-winning novel that uses fantasy to teach history, called The Jericho River. David currently lives in Los Angeles, California.