cuad_covenant_not_to_sue

Classify if the clause specifies that a party is restricted from contesting the validity of the counterparty’s ownership of intellectual property or otherwise bringing a claim against the counterparty for matters unrelated to the contract.

Size (samples): 314

Legal reasoning type: Interpretation

Task type: Binary classification

Task description

This is a binary classification task in which the model must determine if a contractual clause falls under the category of “Covenant Not To Sue”.

Task construction

This task was constructed from the CUAD dataset, which annotated clauses in 500 contracts according to 41 types. Positive samples for this task correspond to clauses for which annotators answered the following question in the affirmative:

Is a party restricted from contesting the validity of the counterparty’s ownership of intellectual property or otherwise bringing a claim against the counterparty for matters unrelated to the contract?

Negative samples are randomly selected from other clauses.

Citation information

If you use this dataset, we ask that you also cite to the source of the data as well.

@article{hendrycks2021cuad,
  title={Cuad: An expert-annotated nlp dataset for legal contract review},
  author={Hendrycks, Dan and Burns, Collin and Chen, Anya and Ball, Spencer},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06268},
  year={2021}
}