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• License-Granting Language Is Just Another Contract Provision

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  Yesterday I revisited the question of the relationship between a license and the contract that grants the license. This issue arose in connection with a trademark license agreement I’ve been redrafting. The original version says that the license is “nonassignable,” and I’ve been contemplating deleting that ...
  4 hours ago

• “Product” and “Units of Product”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  I was reminded today how the word product can be a nuisance when drafting, for example, a license agreement providing for a royalty based on products sold. Product can be used to refer to a product line, with its own SKU , or it can mean individual samples of a product line. I use the defined term the Product ...
  4 days ago

• 7 web 2.0 words to use cautiously with real managers

  
  Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad — Authority: 509
  Even if enterprise 2.0 has its source in web 2.0, everybody now recognize that what we can see and use on the web needs to be tidied up to enter the workplace. One of the stumbling blocks can be found in language : sometimes even if two people agree on the content, the form can make them not understand each other. ...
  5 days ago

• “Remit” and “Remittance”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  The words remit and remittance occur relatively often in contracts. Black’s Law Dictionary gives as one definition of remit “To transmit (as money) (upon receiving the demand letter, she promptly remitted the amount due).” And here’s how it defines remittance : “1. A sum of money sent to another as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drafting Without Punctuation?

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  A participant at my recent seminar in Ottawa reminded me of something I’d never paid much attention to—the idea that one should draft without punctuation. It’s a hoary old notion that still lingers in Commonwealth jurisdictions. Here’s what an Australian text has to say on the subject: Traditional legal ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Hereby Grants” or “Hereby Grants To”?

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  Warning: grammar nerdiness ahead. In license agreements I see the following two alternative constructions: Acme hereby grants Widgetco a license to … Acme hereby grants to Widgetco a license to … The second alternative represents the inferior choice. Consider the following sentences: I gave John a book. ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Mac Market Share Hits All-Time High Following Windows 7 Launch" and related posts

  
  DesiTonic : Spice Your Life With Daily Digital Doze — Authority: 156
  TheAppleBlog Microsoft’s advertising strategy with the latest installment of Windows is basically to none-too-subtly deride its predecessors, and it does appear to be helping Windows 7 gain traction among consumers. Windows 7 Usages Reaches 3% of Web-Connected PCs
  3 weeks ago

• “Addendum”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  Someone recently asked me what I thought of using the word addendum in connection with contracts. I’m not crazy about it. Black’s Law Dictionary defines addendum as “Something to be added, esp. to a document; a supplement.” So an addendum adds something to a contract, but it’s not clear whether you’re ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wall Street Journal Article and Video on “Throughout the Universe”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  The Wall Street Journal has published this article on use of the phrase throughout the universe in contracts. And below is the accompanying video. I’m featured fleetingly in both. Most of my interview ended up on the cutting-room floor, presumably because my take on this subject was dreadfully earnest: The ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Irrevocably”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  Recently the word irrevocably attracted my attention. It means “unalterably.” And more often than not it’s redundant. That’s because generally when a contract party takes an action, it follows that absent anything in the contract to the contrary, the action can’t be undone. Consider the following ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Formally” and “Formal”

  
  AdamsDrafting — Authority: 118
  The word formally occurs fairly often in contracts. It appears in 994 contracts filed as “material contracts” on the SEC’s EDGAR system in the past year. Here are some examples: Lender may conclusively rely on such certificate until formally advised by a like certificate of any changes therein. All ...
  5 weeks ago

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