ACT executive director Morgan Reed issued the following statement today in response to the FDA’s draft guidance that would exempt many low risk medical apps and devices from FDA review: Today's draft guidance continues the FDA's strong push towards innovation-friendly policies. This clarification will help provide a clearer path for [...]
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. “It is clear from today’s actions that the court is out of step with global privacy concerns,” said ACT President [...]
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 of entities, Commissioner Brill staked out her position that both the collection and use of health data by third-party apps should [...]
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 Tech in Policy event on July 23rd at the Newseum. Commissioner Brill is leading the FTC’s efforts to review consumer [...]
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 often does not accurately capture the essential nature of the patent. 2. Think through the drawings. The drawings in a [...]