The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) applauds the Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision today in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association striking down a California law that prohibited, in part, the sale of certain video games to minors. ACT Executive Director Morgan Reed issued the following statement. One of the most important [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology applauded Apple's step today to reassure app developers that in-app purchases are covered by the Cupertino company's license of Lodsys technology. Last week, Lodsys sent letters to individual app developers demanding they license the use of its technology. ACT Executive Director Morgan Reed: The developer [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology today applauded the settlement reached between TiVo and Echostar as a victory for intellectual property rights. ACT submitted two amicus briefs in the case supporting TiVo in its case against Echostar. ACT's Morgan Reed issued the following statement in response to the settlement. Today's settlement [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology, a trade association representing thousands of mobile app and software developers, today responded to the Cellular Telephone and Internet Association's proposal to rate smartphone apps, rejecting the suggestion that CTIA act as the apps regulator. Software developers have expressed loud and clear that they do [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) applauded today's Federal Circuit Court decision in Tivo v. Echostar. ACT filed a brief in the case in support of TiVo against Echostar's infringement of its intellectual property and its repeated contempt violations for refusing to disable infringing devices. “Today's decision by the Federal [...]