This week I'm in San Francisco at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), where Apple unveils new products and services set to drive the mobile economy over the coming year. One thing is very clear: the app economy continues to thrive. Having already earned in excess of $30 billion, iOS developers are [...]
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Welcome to June 1, the first day of ACT | The App Association’s 99-Day Wearables Try-on-athon! What’s that? It’s 99 days of our team setting some personal health and fitness goals, challenging each other, and trying a bunch of different wearable devices with various capabilities to see how they work, [...]
Patent reform is back in a big way in 2015 – and that’s a good thing. Today, App Association members and small companies are under threat from patent trolls that weaken the value of the patent system. Patent trolls are bad actors that use use vague demand letters to assert [...]
Our friend and ACT member Scott Stanfield raised concerns about the expansion of first-sale doctrine at a roundtable discussion hosted by the PTO last week in Berkeley, CA. Scott is the CEO of the California-based company, Vertigo Software, which employs more than 60 people. Foremost among the issues he raised is the unsustainability of an app [...]