In a highly-anticipated decision in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust enforcement case against Qualcomm, U.S. District Court judge Lucy Koh found that Qualcomm’s licensing practices clearly violate U.S. antitrust law and rejected U.S. Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim’s newfangled legal theory that competition law [...]
The agreement Apple and Qualcomm announced last week may have ended direct litigation between the two companies, but it did nothing to address the growing threat to competition and innovation caused by anticompetitive abuse of standard-essential patents (SEPs) by Qualcomm and others. That is why the alliance of companies, organizations, [...]
For many ACT | The App Association members, the United Kingdom (UK) is a natural market to look to for growth. Many of these App Association members in the United States doing business in the UK and the European Union (EU) utilize the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, a framework enabling U.S. [...]
Recently, during HIMSS19 in Orlando, FL, I had the pleasure of presenting on the new developments in Medicare’s approach to incentivizing the use of digital health tools in care delivery across several of its beneficiary programs. The updates I shared during my session are the result of years of cross-stakeholder [...]
Qualcomm has recently been pushing a new false narrative that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against the company represents a “threat to national security.” It has employed throngs of lobbyists and hired spokespeople to spread this mantra, including via op-eds in the media. It’s not a surprising strategy [...]