A Scroll Down Membership Lane: October 2025’s Member Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we spotlight these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements. This month, in recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and at a moment when policymakers around the world are considering proposals that could weaken encryption, we featured members whose work demonstrates why strong, reliable cybersecurity is essential to keeping people safe online. For small tech companies, encryption isn’t theoretical. [...]
Legislation in Brazil Threatens Local Digital Economy and Small Businesses
ACT | The App Association Calls on National Congress to Vote Against “Fast Tracking” Proposed Tech Regulation in Brazil WASHINGTON, D.C. – ACT | The App Association urges the National Congress of Brazil to immediately reject any move to “fast track” legislative bill 4675. Rushing into the adoption of such complex, high-impact digital platform regulation imperils Brazil's growing digital economy and its countless small businesses and developers. “Rushing through a vote on this DMA-style legislation would be a grave [...]
ACT | The App Association Welcomes JURI Committee’s Decision to Take the Commission to Court Over SEP Withdrawal
BRUSSELS – Today, the European Parliament’s JURI Committee voted to challenge the European Commission’s withdrawal of the proposed Standard Essential Patents (SEP) Regulation in court. ACT | The App Association strongly supports this decision, which is a vital step to protect Europe’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovators and consumers. Mike Sax, founder and chairperson of ACT | The App Association, an international trade association for app developers, entrepreneurs, and tech SMEs, released the following statement: ‘Europe’s SMEs cannot be [...]
ACT | The App Association Asks Federal Appeals Court to Assert Obligation to Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Licensing Terms
WASHINGTON – In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, ACT | The App Association asserted its members’ vital interest in the judicial enforcement of the fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing commitments that standard-essential patent (SEP) holders agree to when they voluntarily submit their technology into a standard. “SEP holders and their licensing pools, after using the standards process to secure a monopoly and making a promise to provide FRAND licenses [...]
ACT | The App Association Calls on APEC Leaders to Empower Digital Economy MSMEs
WASHINGTON, D.C.- ACT | The App Association has long been actively engaging with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and its member economies to identify and address barriers to digital trade and digital economy innovation. As APEC members convene in Korea this week, the App Association calls on leaders to strengthen commitments to a more predictable and competitive digital trade environment across the APEC region that are critical to enabling micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) growth and job creation. To [...]