What the UK Government Can Do to Encourage Competition and Innovation in the Standard-Essential Patent Ecosystem
One of our goals here at ACT | The App Association is preserving and promoting innovation while encouraging a healthy and robust standards ecosystem and ensuring that our members’ voices [...]
What Tech SMEs Should Know About the European Commission’s Consultation on SEPs
Internet of things (IoT) innovators across the European Union (EU) have long advocated for the need for EU-wide legislation concerning standard-essential patents (SEPs)—the patents that enable the use of standard [...]
President Biden to Congress: Forget the Antitrust Bills, Get Privacy Done
In last night’s State of the Union (SOTU) speech, President Biden hit the bullseye on the tech issues voters really care about: taking on social media and privacy abuses. His [...]
Next StEPs: DoJ, USPTO, and NIST Draft Policy Update
Quick Reminder Late last year, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) jointly released [...]
Event Recap: Transparency in FRAND methodologies for SEP evaluations
Part three of the webinar series: A new framework for standard-essential patents (SEPs) On 8 February 2022, ACT | The App Association held the third webinar in a series of [...]
Member Spotlight: Blue Maestro
What happy chimps and sixteenth century art have in common Pentworth House in West Sussex, UK is a National Trust property that houses a significant collection of artworks, including the [...]