At the IAPP AI Governance Conference in Boston in mid-September 2025, ACT | The App Association’s Brian Scarpelli moderated a timely and thought-provoking panel titled “How Should Liability Be Distributed in the AI Value Chain?” The discussion gathered legal, technical, and policy experts to unpack one of the most [...]
On September 23, 2025, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) hosted a panel discussion titled, “DOJ v. Google: The Remedies Decision and the Future of Search,” an event examining what Judge Amit Mehta’s recently announced remedies mean for the search market and the broader digital economy. I was [...]
Across the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, member economies’ competition authorities are taking a fresh look at the role of digital platforms and curated online marketplaces (COMs) in fostering healthy, innovative ecosystems. These digital platforms and the emerging technologies they enable are indispensable to startups, scaleups, and small and [...]
At this year’s RE+ conference in Las Vegas, ACT | The App Association highlighted a challenge that solar technology innovators are only now beginning to grapple with: abusive licensing practices tied to standard-essential patents (SEPs). For years, small app developers and device makers in the communications sector have faced aggressive [...]
With Judge Mehta ruling that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in the general search and search advertising markets, violating Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is very likely to be appealed, all attention has turned to the question of what remedies the court will impose. A July [...]