Today, Senators Reid, Schumer, Lautenberg and Udall released a letter they sent to mobile applications stores asking them to block distribution of traffic software apps like Trapster and PhantomALERT because user-generated input can warn drivers about drunk driving checkpoints. While I applaud the Senators for seeking to curb drunk driving, [...]
Yesterday's announced merger between AT&T and T-Mobile could bring increased access to more smartphone platforms throughout the US, and more spectrum for mobile apps that are becoming the backbone of a fully functional mobile web. Despite apps being the dominant feature in smartphone ads, we've only begun to scratch the [...]
[cetsEmbedRSS id=https://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 [...]