Contracts and Forms Index

Executive summary:

The Forms & Agreements portion of BitLaw provides access to forms and example contracts relating to intellectual property and the Internet. This section is designed as a resource for attorneys. Although the information in this section might prove useful for those non-attorneys drafting their own contracts or conducting business with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, this is not the intent of this section. Since every agreement must be drafted to reflect the circumstances of the parties, the use of an unaltered form agreement is usually inappropriate. In addition, since many of the forms referred to in this section are located outside of BitLaw, using these forms as is may raise copyright concerns. As a result, the information in this section should be used solely by attorneys to aid in the drafting of intellectual property and Internet agreements.

The Forms & Agreements section is divided into the following parts:

Forms Used In Conducting Business with U.S. Intellectual Property Offices
Sample Contracts and Related Resources
- Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements,
- Employment and Contractor Agreements (currently on this page),
- Internet Policies (currently on this page),
- Licenses (currently on this page),
- Sales, Assignments, and Distribution (currently on this page), and
- Software and Web Site Development Agreements (currently on this page).

Employment and Contractor Agreements

Sample forms found elsewhere on the Internet
- Contractor/Consulting Agreement (work for hire and/or copyright assignment)
  - One Consulting Agreement and Another (from OneCLE)
  - Consulting Company Agreement (from Pegasus Technology)
  - Professional Services/Work for Hire Agreement (Anne Wallingford, Wordsmith)
  - Consulting Agreement (University of Texas)
  - Consulting Agreement (at the 'Lectric Law Library
- General Employment (non-compete)
  - Non-Compete Agreement (at the 'Lectric Law Library)
  - Employment Agreement with non-compete (at the 'Lectric Law Library)
  - Information About and Sample Non-Compete Agreement (Business Owner's Toolkit)

Internet Policies

Sample forms found elsewhere on the Internet
- Internet Use Policies
  - K-12 School Use Policy Handbook (Virginia Dept. of Education)
  - State Employee Policy (Virginia Department of Human Resource Management)
  - Federal Government Use Policy (Commerce Department)
  - Library Use Policy (San Francisco Public Library)
  - ISP Use Policy (ATX Communications)
  - ISP Use Policy (Comcast)
  - ISP Use Policy (Earthlink)
  - University Policy (University of Texas)
- E-Mail Policies
  - Univeristy Policy--Electronic Communications (University of California System)

Software Licenses

Articles found elsewhere on the Internet
- License Negotiations
  - Negotiating Software License Agreements in an Economic Downturn by Gordon and Glickson.
- Concerns about violating licenses
  - Software Licensing (Automation Access)
- General Discussions
  - Wikipedia
  - How Software License Agreements Protect Your Business (Coollawyer.com)
- Sample Software License forms. There are probably hundreds of thousands of software license agreements on the Internet (as can be seen by searching on the term Software License in Google). The following is a non-representative list of agreements explicitly stated to be "sample" agreements.
  - Software License (Findlaw)
  - Software Vendor License Agreement (CounterExploitation)
  - Equipment Purchase and Software License (OneCLE)
  - Software License (LawSmart)

Sales, Assignments, and Distribution

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Software and Web Site Development Agreements

We are currently updated this section with new (non-broken!) links.