Morgan Reed, Executive Director of the Association for Competitive Technology, released the following statement in response to the letter from Senators Reid, Schumer, Lautenberg and Udall calling for mobile applications stores to block the distribution of traffic software apps like Trapster and PhantomALERT. While I applaud the Senators for seeking [...]

Today, Victoria Espinel, the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (“IPEC”), released a White Paper on Intellectual Property Enforcement Legislative Recommendations.  The following quotes may be attributed to Thomas Sydnor II, Fellow for Intellectual Property at the Association for Competitive Technology. "This White Paper shows why President Obama chose wisely when he [...]

The Association for Competitive Technology and the developer community support the measures taken by Apple to address concerns about in-app purchasing practices of some vendors in the App Store. "Apple's changes to its in-app purchase API  will prevent abuses of the system, but require some developers to re-examine the user [...]

The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) applauds Chairman Goodlatte for holding a hearing today on the role of innovation and intellectual property in the U.S. economy.  Consideration of this issue could not come at a more important time.  Our economy grows, and creates jobs, when entrepreneurs bring exciting new products [...]

The Association for Competitive Technology applauds the introduction of the American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011. The bill, introduced by a bipartisan group led by Reps. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) permanently expands and extends the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit. "Innovation is the engine of [...]