A Scroll Down Memory Lane: October 2024’s Member Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging technology to create meaningful solutions that drive positive change. Each month, we spotlight these trailblazing small businesses through our Member Monday series. In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, October’s featured members spotlight the tools, resources, and innovations independent and small business developers use to enhance privacy, security, and consumer trust. With growing data protection and cybersecurity concerns, our members are at the forefront of providing platform-based privacy [...]
Don’t Make Small Businesses Your Beta Testers: Our Amicus Brief in Epic v. Google
In many jurisdictions around the world, courts and policymakers see themselves as David-like underdogs against large platform Goliaths. But the reality is not so simple. When judicial power is used to reshape markets to limit one player’s dominance, there are unintended consequences for everyone in the ecosystem. In our recent amicus brief filed in the Android app market competition case Epic v. Google, we urged the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to recognize that this case has significant implications [...]
Statement from ACT | The App Association on Federal Circuit Appeals Decision in Ericsson v Lenovo on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)
Today, the Federal Circuit took a significant step to curb standard essential patent (SEP) licensing abuses by vacating and remanding the lower court's decision. This decision follows ACT | The App Association recently filing an amicus brief on behalf of our small and medium-sized developer community in an appeal to the Federal Circuit to reverse a North Carolina federal court’s denial of an anti-suit injunction (ASI). The ASI was sought against a standard essential patent (SEP) holder that was simultaneously [...]
ACT | The App Association Files Amicus Brief in Epic v. Google Urging a Stay of Injunction Until Appeal Decided
This week, ACT | The App Association filed an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the motion by Google urging the court to stay the injunction pending an appeal. The App Association filed the brief following the decision made by the district court issuing a permanent injunction that would upend the nature of the app ecosystem and the wider small business developer community that leverages Google Play to compete and innovate. “The district court’s [...]
Pre-Election Survey Shows Strong Support for a National Data Privacy Law & Other Small Business Priorities
In a new poll conducted by ACT | The App Association, likely voters share their tech policy priorities and express concern around current approaches to antitrust Access poll results here Less than two weeks out from Election Day, a new poll from the App Association and fielded by Embold Research shows likely voters across the United States strongly support Congress passing a national data privacy law and are concerned about the impact and repercussions of the government's aggressive antitrust approach [...]
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: Safeguarding Sensitive Data in the Age of Increasing Cyber Threats
“We regret to inform you that a vendor was hacked, exposing our customers' personal information.” For many, this sentence has become all too familiar. As technology becomes more deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, the rising tide of data breaches threatens the security of personal information. The startling reality is that one in three Americans has experienced a data breach. But these numbers don't tell the full story. These violations disproportionately affect disenfranchised communities—often with less access to [...]