Reform & the U.S. Patent System: Big Stakes for Small Business Patent Reform Must Focus on Small Firms That Drive Innovation New Report Finds Real and Perceived Problems with Quality, Pendency and Cost, Keep Many Small Firms from Taking Advantage of this Critical Resource Washington, DC – Significant reform of [...]
Open Source Hypercharges Software Market Competition Open source software (OSS) has undoubtedly injected competition and innovation to the industry at large and is no longer the sole domain of a small sect of iconoclastic programmers. Open source products such as Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and Perl have found great [...]
On December 17, 2002, President Bush signed the E-Government Act of 2002 (s. 803, H.R. 2458). Citizens have pondered why they have been able to research, locate, and purchase a myriad of private sector products and services online for years but realized little or no comparable convenience when interacting with [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology ("ACT") hereby submits its comments on the Revised Proposed Final Judgment ("RPFJ") that has been proposed by most of the plaintiffs, including the United States, and defe ndant Microsoft Corporation. ACT is a trade association representing some 3,000 information technology ("IT") companies, including Microsoft, on [...]
Who we are The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) is a global Information Technology (IT) trade association, representing nearly 3,000 member companies worldwide. Almost all of our members are SMEs, for which innovation, research and patent protection are key to developing high-impact, technologically advanced solutions. Our experience and the CII [...]