ACT | The App Association testifies before House Judiciary Committee on “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship” On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law as [...]
I’ve been a member of ACT | The App Association since it was founded in 1998, and for the most part, I was a typical member: a software developer at a tech company. For the past five years, however, I have been a venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley. It [...]
The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) spends our year addressing a wide range of digital health issues, but one of the most pressing issues in 2019 is health data interoperability. The efficacy of precision medicine, population health, clinical decision support—and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools in particular—depend in large part on the [...]
By Debbie Rose and Madeline Zick Let’s begin with a riddle. What do mobile apps, poetry, photographs, movies, books, and sculptures have in common? Answer: they are all eligible for copyright protection! The U.S. Copyright Act offers creators protection for original works of authorship, which according to the U.S. Copyright [...]
By Craig Beuerlein and Graham Dufault The 2006 eBay Inc. v. MercExchange LLC decision (eBay) was a historic moment in U.S. patent policy. The eBay ruling establishes a precedent that decreases a small business’s financial burden when it must defend itself against a legal complaint that either asserts a weak patent or [...]