New Guidelines Shift Policy from Technology Mandates Toward a More Effective Goals-Based Policy Washington – Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division finalized its open format proposal as part of a periodic revision to its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM). The ETRM version 4.0 is now ready to be [...]

Washington – Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division posted a new draft of its open format proposal as part of a periodic revision to its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM). In response to the new draft, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) president Jonathan Zuck made the following statement: [...]

ACT OPPOSES SENATOR SANDERS’ PROPOSED H-1B AMENDMENT TO IMMIGRATION BILL BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont began courting fellow senators to support an amendment to the current immigration bill that would raise the fee for H-1B visas in order to [...]

ON THE FFII EUROPEAN PATENT CONFERENCE BY JONATHAN ZUCK, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGY Today at a Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) conference, participants discussed the European patent system.  The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) believes it is important to have high standard patents to allow [...]

Washington - The Supreme Court of the United State today issued two important decisions that will bring some much needed common sense to world patent law, according to the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT).  The Supreme Court delivered decisions in the cases of KSR International v Teleflex and Microsoft v. [...]