July 22, 2014
FTC’s Brill & ACT’s Reed talk tech at Hill Newseum event
Tech in Policy: Innovation Impacting Washington ACT | The App Association Executive Director Morgan Reed and FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will discuss health and education policy [...]
ACT Welcomes FTC changes to COPPA
Today the Federal Trade Commission made updates to its FAQ for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in response to concerns raised by app makers and [...]
How to Read a Patent Application in Four Steps
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 [...]
Show the USPTO the Money
We’ve talked about patents a lot recently and one of our main points has always been that the best place to address patent quality is at the [...]
Who will win the health app race?
ACT | The App Association has been deeply involved in the health app market for some time now. While we’ve long believed in the transformative potential of [...]
June 27, 2014
Supreme Court Supports Innovation in Cloud Services
For those who don’t obsessively follow Supreme Court cases (I know there must be a few of you out there), the Supreme Court has been busy this [...]