1. Skip the abstract. Patent abstracts are hard to read--meandering at best, and deliberately vague at worst. The abstract has little legal significance beyond shedding light on the claims and often does not accurately capture the essential nature of the patent. 2. Think through the drawings. The drawings in a [...]
Statement from ACT President, Jonathan Zuck to Congressman Howard Coble regarding the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet’s hearing on June 2, 2014, “First Sale Under Title 17." [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ACT-First-Sale-Hearing-Letter.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Statement[/pl_button]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced their decision in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, which invalidated the patents at issue. There's a "big picture" here, but there's some smaller, more intriguing parts of the decision that are going to keep our brains working for the next few days. On the big picture side, [...]
Last week, NPR's Morning Edition featured a story about a Queens school for children within the autism spectrum that use iPads in class and to play in their high school band. It's the type of story we're accustomed to hearing at ACT | The App Association. Most of the country first learned about the incredible impact apps have had educating children with autism from Leslie Stahl's Sixty Minutes segment on apps for autism in 2011.