App Industry Under Threat from Today’s Court Decision
ACT | The App Association issued the following statement today in response to the District Court ruling that requires Microsoft to provide federal investigators access to email communications stored overseas. [...]
Commissioner Brill and Morgan Reed Debate Mobile Health Regulation
Last week, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill and ACT’s Morgan Reed took the stage at The Hill’s Tech in Policy event to discuss mobile health. While Morgan urged a focus on the behavior [...]
FTC’s Brill & ACT’s Reed talk tech at Hill Newseum event
Tech in Policy: Innovation Impacting Washington ACT | The App Association Executive Director Morgan Reed and FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will discuss health and education policy at The Hill’s [...]
ACT Welcomes FTC changes to COPPA
Today the Federal Trade Commission made updates to its FAQ for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in response to concerns raised by app makers and parents. This FAQ [...]
How to Read a Patent Application in Four Steps
1. Skip the abstract. Patent abstracts are hard to read--meandering at best, and deliberately vague at worst. The abstract has little legal significance beyond shedding light on the claims and [...]
Show the USPTO the Money
We’ve talked about patents a lot recently and one of our main points has always been that the best place to address patent quality is at the United States Patent [...]