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Agreement Structure\n- [ ] **Type identified**: Mutual NDA, Unilateral (disclosing party), or Unilateral (receiving party)\n- [ ] **Appropriate for context**: Is the NDA type appropriate for the business relationship? (e.g., mutual for exploratory discussions, unilateral for one-way disclosures)\n- [ ] **Standalone agreement**: Confirm the NDA is a standalone agreement, not a confidentiality section embedded in a larger commercial agreement\n\n### 2. Definition of Confidential Information\n- [ ] **Reasonable scope**: Not overbroad (avoid \"all information of any kind whether or not marked as confidential\")\n- [ ] **Marking requirements**: If marking is required, is it workable? (Written marking within 30 days of oral disclosure is standard)\n- [ ] **Exclusions present**: Standard exclusions defined (see Standard Carveouts below)\n- [ ] **No problematic inclusions**: Does not define publicly available information or independently developed materials as confidential\n\n### 3. Obligations of Receiving Party\n- [ ] **Standard of care**: Reasonable care or at least the same care as for own confidential information\n- [ ] **Use restriction**: Limited to the stated purpose\n- [ ] **Disclosure restriction**: Limited to those with need to know who are bound by similar obligations\n- [ ] **No onerous obligations**: No requirements that are impractical (e.g., encrypting all communications, maintaining physical logs)\n\n### 4. Standard Carveouts\nAll of the following carveouts should be present:\n- [ ] **Public knowledge**: Information that is or becomes publicly available through no fault of the receiving party\n- [ ] **Prior possession**: Information already known to the receiving party before disclosure\n- [ ] **Independent development**: Information independently developed without use of or reference to confidential information\n- [ ] **Third-party receipt**: Information rightfully received from a third party without restriction\n- [ ] **Legal compulsion**: Right to disclose when required by law, regulation, or legal process (with notice to the disclosing party where legally permitted)\n\n### 5. Permitted Disclosures\n- [ ] **Employees**: Can share with employees who need to know\n- [ ] **Contractors/advisors**: Can share with contractors, advisors, and professional consultants under similar confidentiality obligations\n- [ ] **Affiliates**: Can share with affiliates (if needed for the business purpose)\n- [ ] **Legal/regulatory**: Can disclose as required by law or regulation\n\n### 6. Term and Duration\n- [ ] **Agreement term**: Reasonable period for the business relationship (1-3 years is standard)\n- [ ] **Confidentiality survival**: Obligations survive for a reasonable period after termination (2-5 years is standard; trade secrets may be longer)\n- [ ] **Not perpetual**: Avoid indefinite or perpetual confidentiality obligations (exception: trade secrets, which may warrant longer protection)\n\n### 7. Return and Destruction\n- [ ] **Obligation triggered**: On termination or upon request\n- [ ] **Reasonable scope**: Return or destroy confidential information and all copies\n- [ ] **Retention exception**: Allows retention of copies required by law, regulation, or internal compliance/backup policies\n- [ ] **Certification**: Certification of destruction is reasonable; sworn affidavit is onerous\n\n### 8. Remedies\n- [ ] **Injunctive relief**: Acknowledgment that breach may cause irreparable harm and equitable relief may be appropriate is standard\n- [ ] **No pre-determined damages**: Avoid liquidated damages clauses in NDAs\n- [ ] **Not one-sided**: Remedies provisions apply equally to both parties (in mutual NDAs)\n\n### 9. Problematic Provisions to Flag\n- [ ] **No non-solicitation**: NDA should not contain employee non-solicitation provisions\n- [ ] **No non-compete**: NDA should not contain non-compete provisions\n- [ ] **No exclusivity**: NDA should not restrict either party from entering similar discussions with others\n- [ ] **No standstill**: NDA should not contain standstill or similar restrictive provisions (unless M&A context)\n- [ ] **No residuals clause** (or narrowly scoped): If a residuals clause is present, it should be limited to information retained in unaided memory of individuals and should not apply to trade secrets or patented information\n- [ ] **No IP assignment or license**: NDA should not grant any intellectual property rights\n- [ ] **No audit rights**: Unusual in standard NDAs\n\n### 10. Governing Law and Jurisdiction\n- [ ] **Reasonable jurisdiction**: A well-established commercial jurisdiction\n- [ ] **Consistent**: Governing law and jurisdiction should be in the same or related jurisdictions\n- [ ] **No mandatory arbitration** (in standard NDAs): Litigation is generally preferred for NDA disputes\n\n## GREEN / YELLOW / RED Classification Rules\n\n### GREEN -- Standard Approval\n\n**All** of the following must be true:\n- NDA is mutual (or unilateral in the appropriate direction)\n- All standard carveouts are present\n- Term is within standard range (1-3 years, survival 2-5 years)\n- No non-solicitation, non-compete, or exclusivity provisions\n- No residuals clause, or residuals clause is narrowly scoped\n- Reasonable governing law jurisdiction\n- Standard remedies (no liquidated damages)\n- Permitted disclosures include employees, contractors, and advisors\n- Return/destruction provisions include retention exception for legal/compliance\n- Definition of confidential information is reasonably scoped\n\n**Routing**: Approve via standard delegation of authority. No counsel review required.\n\n### YELLOW -- Counsel Review Needed\n\n**One or more** of the following are present, but the NDA is not fundamentally problematic:\n- Definition of confidential information is broader than preferred but not unreasonable\n- Term is longer than standard but within market range (e.g., 5 years for agreement term, 7 years for survival)\n- Missing one standard carveout that could be added without difficulty\n- Residuals clause present but narrowly scoped to unaided memory\n- Governing law in an acceptable but non-preferred jurisdiction\n- Minor asymmetry in a mutual NDA (e.g., one party has slightly broader permitted disclosures)\n- Marking requirements present but workable\n- Return/destruction lacks explicit retention exception (likely implied but should be added)\n- Unusual but non-harmful provisions (e.g., obligation to notify of potential breach)\n\n**Routing**: Flag specific issues for counsel review. Counsel can likely resolve with minor redlines in a single review pass.\n\n### RED -- Significant Issues\n\n**One or more** of the following are present:\n- **Unilateral when mutual is required** (or wrong direction for the relationship)\n- **Missing critical carveouts** (especially independent development or legal compulsion)\n- **Non-solicitation or non-compete provisions** embedded in the NDA\n- **Exclusivity or standstill provisions** without appropriate business context\n- **Unreasonable term** (10+ years, or perpetual without trade secret justification)\n- **Overbroad definition** that could capture public information or independently developed materials\n- **Broad residuals clause** that effectively creates a license to use confidential information\n- **IP assignment or license grant** hidden in the NDA\n- **Liquidated damages or penalty provisions**\n- **Audit rights** without reasonable scope or notice requirements\n- **Highly unfavorable jurisdiction** with mandatory arbitration\n- **The document is not actually an NDA** (contains substantive commercial terms, exclusivity, or other obligations beyond confidentiality)\n\n**Routing**: Full legal review required. Do not sign. Requires negotiation, counterproposal with the organization's standard form NDA, or rejection.\n\n## Common NDA Issues and Standard Positions\n\n### Issue: Overbroad Definition of Confidential Information\n**Standard position**: Confidential information should be limited to non-public information disclosed in connection with the stated purpose, with clear exclusions.\n**Redline approach**: Narrow the definition to information that is marked or identified as confidential, or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential given the nature of the information and circumstances of disclosure.\n\n### Issue: Missing Independent Development Carveout\n**Standard position**: Must include a carveout for information independently developed without reference to or use of the disclosing party's confidential information.\n**Risk if missing**: Could create claims that internally-developed products or features were derived from the counterparty's confidential information.\n**Redline approach**: Add standard independent development carveout.\n\n### Issue: Non-Solicitation of Employees\n**Standard position**: Non-solicitation provisions do not belong in NDAs. They are appropriate in employment agreements, M&A agreements, or specific commercial agreements.\n**Redline approach**: Delete the provision entirely. If the counterparty insists, limit to targeted solicitation (not general recruitment) and set a short term (12 months).\n\n### Issue: Broad Residuals Clause\n**Standard position**: Resist residuals clauses. If required, limit to: (a) general ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques retained in the unaided memory of individuals who had authorized access; (b) explicitly exclude trade secrets and patentable information; (c) does not grant any IP license.\n**Risk if too broad**: Effectively grants a license to use the disclosing party's confidential information for any purpose.\n\n### Issue: Perpetual Confidentiality Obligation\n**Standard position**: 2-5 years from disclosure or termination, whichever is later. Trade secrets may warrant protection for as long as they remain trade secrets.\n**Redline approach**: Replace perpetual obligation with a defined term. 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