While you may have missed it, a vital hearing on issues at the core of small business innovation took place in the final days of the 118th Congress that will shape key legislative objectives starting in 2025. On December 18, 2024, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, [...]
Members of ACT | The App Association are innovative small businesses and independent developers driving change in the global app economy. From artificial intelligence and digital trade to connected health and decentralized technologies, our members build the tools and services that power today’s digital world. Just as a passport enables [...]
On October 24, 2024, the Federal Circuit took a key step in preventing standard-essential patent (SEP) holders from evading their voluntary commitments to license on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. By reversing a North Carolina federal court’s denial of Lenovo’s request for an anti-suit injunction (ASI) against Ericsson, [...]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is powering a wide variety of accessibility tools and features for Americans to address an array of disabilities. For those of us with hearing impairment, voice recognition programs transcribe speeches and lectures in real-time. Meanwhile, facial and object recognition software helps translate a user’s surroundings so that [...]
Brazil, one of Latin America’s leading economies, is grappling with the complexities of standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing. Brazilian courts are the most recent jurisdiction to experience an influx of SEP licensing disputes that challenge their understanding of being pro-innovation and pro-patent. ACT | The App Association partnered with Legal Grounds [...]