Computer Contracts: from A to Z

UNICOM
London, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This essential course summarises the key points in computer contracts. Covering a full two days, the course delivers solid, practical guidelines for ensuring computer contracts are effective, accurate and provide the essential commercial leverage needed. both now and in the long term.

Background and Objectives
Effective, well-thought-out contracts provide the vital, often the only, lifeline in managing supplier/purchaser relationships. So those contracts must be right.

This course shows how a purchaser can:


Minimise supplier exclusions and limitations of liability, maximise control

Secure robust service, delivery, and performance warranties

Have ownership defined - clearly, unequivocally

Ensure full protection - for all types and use of software, hardware, or service

Know the contract is future proof - rock solid, yet allowing for change

The course is also of great benefit to a computer vendor, since it covers those aspects of the contract that may be examined by a user, and explains why this is so.

It is precisely for this reason that Dai Davis, leading international lawyer, presents this seminar:


Computer Contracts : an A - Z .

Both days packed with the critical facts, issues and concepts of computer contract law. From someone who has been there and done it many, many times. For IT users and IT suppliers.Attendess can opt for either day of the workshop.

At the end of the course, you will understand the issues and be in a position to safeguard yourself and your client. You will also find out how to get the most out of your legal adviser. Throughout the course, we discuss these topics in the context of a typical computer acquisition and identify the relevance of clauses in a contract. The course will include a workshop element. You will have the opportunity to work through several examples to illustrate the difficulties in contract formation and contract drafting. Exercises are undertaken both individually and in groups.





Day One
The Acquisition Process - Essential Fundamentals of Law
The fundamentals of contract law. How these apply in computer transactions. What it is about computers that makes bullet proof contracts so vital. Where the law helps, where it hinders, how to avoid the traps. Misrepresentation - what it is, when it arises, how to deal with it.





BESPOKE SOFTWARE, PURCHASED SOFTWARE - GETTING FULL PROTECTION
The complex nature of software. Protection of software in a legal context. Purpose and scope of a software licence. Why specific aspects of the licence may be invalid! Why and where you should take very great care. The (criminal) cost of getting it wrong! Key legal concepts explained.





Day Two
SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND ESCROW - STAYING FULLY PROTECTED
Critical nature and forms of software maintenance. The types and periods of software maintenance.The relationship between Maintenance and Escrow (source code deposit) agreements. When and why Escrow protection is necessary. Escrow in practice. How to avoid the traps. How to stay in business!





BECOMING LEGALLY BULLET PROOF - SPECIAL ISSUES EXPLAINED
How else is software protected? What to look for in confidentiality arrangements. How does leasing affect the relationship with the supplier? Where are the legal dangers in Outsourcing? Data Warehousing, Application Service Providers, Disaster Recovery and Multimedia contracts pose new, untestedlegal problems. What do you need to do?





LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND COMPUTER DISPUTES
Why the supplier wants to limit its liability. The purchaser’s position. The law. Reconciling the supplier and the purchaser. The essence of a computer dispute. How are most computer disputes settled? Avoiding litigation at an early stage! What you need to know. What you must never do. How to avoid the traps.How to negotiate the Limitations clause.




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Phone:+44 (0)1895 256484

School Address:

UNICOM R&D House
One Oxford Road
Uxbridge, Middlesex
UB9 4DA, UNITED KINGDOM

Tel: +44 (0)1895 256484
Fax: +44 (0)1895 810201
Email: info@unicom.co.uk

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