The EU’s Revised TTBER and Technology Transfer Guidelines: A Step Forward, but SMEs Still Need More

  On 16 April 2026, the European Commission adopted its revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and Technology Transfer Guidelines (Guidelines). For ACT’s members, these Guidelines could determine the ability to license some of the patented components at the heart of technical standards like 5G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth on [...]

By |2026-05-12T11:44:34-04:00May 12th, 2026|Blog, European Union, Policy, SEP, Tech Regulation|

Health and Tech Startups Join Forces in Vancouver

ACT and CABHI jointly sponsoring the largest gathering of developers and innovators in North America   VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – At Web Summit Vancouver this week May 11-14, the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI, powered by Baycrest) will kick off [...]

Championing Small Business Innovation with Leading Competition Regulators During the ABA Spring Antitrust Meeting

  Around this year’s American Bar Association (ABA) Spring Antitrust Meeting, the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) convened a series of high-level meetings with global competition authorities to advance a shared agenda: ensuring that competition policy supports, rather than stifles, the small and medium-sized innovators driving the global digital economy. [...]

By |2026-06-05T11:00:17-04:00May 5th, 2026|Blog, Competition, Global|

Pre-Market Review of AI Is Concerning

The New York Times Reporting of the White House’s Interest Raises Red Flags for Startups and Small Tech Companies WASHINGTON, D.C. – Commenting on today’s reporting by The New York Times, Morgan Reed, president of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT): "Appropriate oversight is reasonable, and the White House struck [...]

Building for Tomorrow, Today

This week we're starting a return to our official name, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), and moving away from the unofficial moniker “the App Association” that we’ve used as shorthand to describe our membership and our work. The world is experiencing a transformative surge in technological innovation from [...]

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