In my last post, Hillicon Valley Gets Duped by Anti-IPR “Activists,” I noted that a group called “Fight for the Future” was dead wrong about the effects of S. 978, a bill proposing that the criminal penalties for high-volume, intentional, for-profit mass piracy should be similar, regardless of whether they [...]
The Hill’s technology blog, Hillicon Valley just posted Brendan Sasso’s story, Bill would send Justin Bieber to prison, group says. As the father of a fourth-grade girl, I assumed that that the bill mentioned must expand criminal-nuisance laws. But the whole story was just nonsense: It just recorded gibberish spouted [...]
ACT has been a leading proponent of legislation that helps protect manufacturers from companies who use stolen software to compete unfairly. These are known broadly as unfair competition or unfair trade practices laws. These laws empower manufacturers to seek damages against foreign competitors that use unlicensed, or pirated, products in [...]
In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the Commission has singled out ICT as a sector where standards are important, playing a role in stimulating innovation, cutting administrative burdens and encouraging [...]
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 [...]