Event Recap: Protecting Patent Quality
Legislative Lifelines: How Congress Can Fix the R&D Financial Flux
Research and development (R&D) play a critical role in expanding our innovative ecosystem and supporting the small and medium-sized businesses we call members. Not only is R&D an opportunity for new and exciting investment opportunities and innovation, but it is essential to creating high-paying jobs across the app ecosystem. For example, [...]
Bridging the Atlantic: A Small Business Guide to Self-Certify under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission implemented an adequacy decision regarding the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which is a self-certification program that seeks to ease the transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States and allow companies to streamline their compliance with EU data flow [...]
Standard Essential-Patents (SEPs) in the UK
Summary The current SEP licensing landscape furthers the interests of a few large international SEP holders, while creating disproportionate barriers to the innovation ambitions of small businesses in the United Kingdom (UK). New survey data and UK High Court findings have demonstrated the urgent need for action to protect the [...]
Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What the CRA Means for Europe’s App Economy
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims at further harmonising and improving cybersecurity in Europe. It represents a significant step in bolstering cybersecurity measures in Europe by adopting a risk-based methodology. Essentially, this means that products with a higher risk profile will be subjected to stricter requirements, and a set of [...]