In Unanimous Decision UK Supreme Court Safeguards Innovation & Competition
Ruling in Tesla v. InterDigital holds that SEPs licensed through platforms/pools remain subject to FRAND obligation LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Comment from Stephen Tulip, UK Country Manager for the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), on today’s ruling that the licensing of standard-essential patents via agents, like patent platform Avanci, are still obligated to license on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. ‘This is a win for startups and SMEs. From Milton Keynes, to Nottingham, to Glasgow, [...]
Event Recap: ACT Calls for Privacy Laws that Support Good Business
As the use of technology expands to ever more parts of our daily lives, policymakers are working to address the challenges of how to protect children online, especially their privacy and data, without hindering technological and business development. On June 25, 2026, Morgan Reed, president of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), joined the Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Program’s congressional briefing “Protecting Children on the Ground: Challenges and Opportunities.” Experts across two panels unpacked the current legislative landscape [...]
Event Recap: Packed Hill Briefing on AICOA Highlights Risks for Small Businesses and Digital Innovation
The small business voice is often hardest to hear in debates over “Big Tech” regulation. That was the central takeaway from ACT’s July 2 Hill briefing, AICOA is Back: What “Big Tech” Platform Regulation Means for Small Businesses. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) hosted the packed briefing, with more than 100 attendees, to examine the reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and what it could mean for small businesses, startups, independent developers, and the broader digital [...]
The Good, the Bad, and Everything You Need to Know about the Parliament’s Draft Report on the EU Inc. Proposal
For years, Europe's founders have had to navigate 27 different company law regimes just to expand across the Single Market. EU Inc. was designed to fix that, and now, the Parliament has had its first real say on how well the Commission's proposal delivers. On 29 June 2026, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) published its draft report on the EU Inc. proposal, with René Repasi (S&D) as rapporteur. We take a closer look at what the [...]