Corporate
Apr. 16, 2001
Contract Inside
Shrinkwrap agreements challenge the traditional understanding of contract formation in a retail sale of goods.
By Stephen D. Gillespie
Courts are often slow to adapt traditional legal rules to new ways of doing business. Shrinkwrap agreements - so called because the buyer does not have an opportunity to read the terms until after opening the "shrinkwrap" on the product packaging - are a good case in point. While software an...
Courts are often slow to adapt traditional legal rules to new ways of doing business. Shrinkwrap agreements - so called because the buyer does not have an opportunity to read the terms until after opening the "shrinkwrap" on the product packaging - are a good case in point. While software an...
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