I’d be grateful for your thoughts on the following question: What determines whether an organization uses a purchase order (with additional terms on the back or separately) when buying goods or services or instead puts all the terms in a contract?
Today I saw a contract that referred to itself throughout as “this CRADA.” Besides the fact that “CRADA” (standing for “cooperative research and development agreement”) has to be one of the least appealing acronyms, why bother using anything other than “this agreement”? Assuming that the full reference is used in the title and once in the introductory clause, readers don’t have … Read More
