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		<description><![CDATA[An aggregation of non-secret information can itself be a trade secret, says Tennessee court &#124; EBG Trade Secrets and Noncompete Blog
A Tennessee appellate court ruled that &#34;[e]ven if [the defendant and former employee] Keymon could have obtained &#39;the individual pieces of information&#39; by other means, the integration and aggregation of it may be deemed confidential [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lack of reasonable protective measures costs trade secret status : EBG Trade Secrets and Noncompete Blog
&#8230; the parties&#39; trade secret dispute centered on the alleged misappropriation of confidential and sensitive documents that were left in an unmarked cardboard box for at least a week in the backseat of a company-owned car to which various company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/03/reading-notes-21/</link>
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		<title>Oklahoma UCC now excludes &#8220;information&#8221; from the definition of &#8220;goods&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read that in 2005, Oklahoma amended its version of the Uniform Commercial Code:

to provide that the term &#8220;goods&#8221; does not include information, and
to exclude &#8220;license[s] of information&#8221; from the definition of &#8220;contract for sale.&#8221;  

I&#8217;ve updated the choice-of-law cheat sheet with this information; I&#8217;ll have to think about what it might mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/03/oklahoma-ucc-now-excludes-information-from-the-definition-of-goods/</link>
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		<title>Four reasons why a master service agreement isn&#8217;t appropriate for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) deal &#8211; Jay Parkhurst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawyer-blogger Jay Parkhurst has some good comments about the problems that can arise when a customer tries to make a SaaS / Web services vendor use the customer&#8217;s standard master services agreement form. 

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		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/four-reasons-why-a-master-service-agreement-isnt-appropriate-for-a-software-as-a-service-saas-deal-jay-parkhurst/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delaware Chancery Court hangs out a shingle as arbitrator for high-end business disputes &#124; Jones Day
Now this is interesting &#8211; if you want Delaware&#39;s specialized business judges to arbitrate your case for you, they&#39;ll get you to &#34;trial&#34; within 90 days for a $12,000 upfront fee and $6,000 per hearing day.  But your case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/reading-notes-20/</link>
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		<title>Contracts should be like a Mac or iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been very impressed with the ease of use of my new iPhone 3GS.  A&#160;related comment by CNet columnist Matt Assay made me think that contracts should likewise be so easy for non-lawyers to use: 

&#8230; Apple product [are] made for normal people who generally don&#8217;t obsess about technology. For all the beauty of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/contracts-should-be-like-a-mac-or-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Sneak some demonstrative aids into the jury room &#8211; by making them contract exhibits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the cliché about a picture being worth a thousand words?  Nowhere is that more true than the courtroom.  That&#8217;s why in litigation, lawyers and expert witnesses often use so-called demonstrative exhibits&#160;&#8212; diagrams, time lines, charts, tables, sketches, etc., on posters or PowerPoint slides&#160;&#8212; as teaching aids to help them get their points [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/sneak-some-demonstrative-aids-into-the-jury-room-by-making-them-contract-exhibits/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athletes’ Scandals Spark Interest in Endorsement Insurance &#8211; NYTimes.com
&#34;[T]he stock prices of the seven publicly held companies that have or had sponsorship deals with [Tiger Woods] lost $12 billion in market value in the month after Woods’s statement in December that he was taking a leave from golf &#8230;.&#34;  Companies are increasingly seeking to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/reading-notes-19/</link>
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		<title>Minor warranty breaches can add up to a material breach, says UK court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve sometimes written into contracts that multiple non-material breaches of a contract, even if cured, can add up to a material breach. A UK court held that this was the case in a lawsuit by British Gas against global consulting-firm Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) over alleged defects in a customer-billing system.  See this article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ontechnologycontracts.com/2010/02/minor-warranty-breaches-can-add-up-to-a-material-breach-says-uk-court/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell arbitration agreement in box not enforceable because customer had no opportunity to return product &#124; Morrison Foerster


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