On 25 May 2021, ACT | The App Association kicked off the App Makers Tour of Europe with its first stop in Romania. During this webinar, we engaged with local app developers, policymakers, and academics. Our speakers discussed the Romanian tech ecosystem and considered the impacts of impending tech regulation [...]
Online Webinar – Register here 14 June 2021 15h00 CET – 16h30 CET Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are a key component of the modern economy. With billions of connected devices in the internet of things (IoT), new avenues of growth open up every day for innovative firms in a vast array [...]
The state of competition in app stores is a hot topic in Congress and state legislatures as they evaluate proposals to remedy issues arising from a perceived lack of competition in app store markets. At the federal level, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights [...]
On 5 May 2021, ACT | the App Association hosted a fireside chat on the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) and the questions the Düsseldorf court recently referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the matter. The licensing of the patented technologies that underpin connectivity [...]
Questions Asked of the Court: A Fireside Chat on Standard-Essential Patents Online Event 5 May 2021, 16h00 – 17h00 CET/10h00 – 111h00 EST Technical standards for interoperability enable billions of devices connected to the internet, opening new avenues of growth for innovative firms, including thousands of small and medium enterprises [...]