[cetsEmbedRSS id=http://actonline.org/feed/rss itemcount=5 itemauthor=0 itemdate=1 itemcontent=0]A bipartisan group led by Reps. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) have introduced the American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011 to permanently expand and extend the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit. Innovation is the engine of our U.S. economy, spawning new [...]
Today, Congress began asking why search engines are allowed to willingly promote and finance piracy. In a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, Former Chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee Howard Berman led off with a question that intellectual property advocates have been asking for years. If a search engine can adjust its [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology, representing over 3,000 small business technology entrepreneurs, continues to applaud the work of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). Marshalling the resources of the administration in defense of our country’s intellectual property, IPEC addresses a big concern for our nation’s innovators: protecting our products from [...]
[I've begun posting at Huffington Post. You can find this piece crossposted there.] Tonight, more than ten million Americans will park themselves on the couch to watch television. Although sitting in front of the screen, they will not be flipping channels to find their programs. Programming choices are no longer [...]
ACT submitted comments this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its proposed new rule to increase transparency in the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) market. ACT supports added transparency in reporting of the Assets-Backed Securities market, but is concerned that specific elements of the proposal could backfire. The SEC’s planned [...]