Late last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance practices and reporting on how they can be improved to…
Washington – The FTC has voted to seek public comments on a study that would examine companies whose main business is extorting money from patents, known as patent assertion entities (PAEs) or patent trolls. This is the first step in a broad federal investigation into the toll of patent trolls. Until now, this empirical data had been…
The recent federal elections in Germany were truly historical. Apart from Angela Merkel’s resounding victory the German liberals, the smaller coalition partner of the last Merkel-led government, did not pass the 5% threshold and will not be part of the newly elected Bundestag – something that has not happened to them since the foundation of…
Washington – Senators Richard Blumenthal, Rand Paul, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden have introduced bipartisan legislation this week to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to curtail the overbroad collection of bulk communications data that the government has claimed was legal. The legislation would not restrict the ability of the government to collect data…
CCIA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant cert in the WildTangent case. This case could help fix patents and clarify some of the confusion that has come out of recent decisions at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As Matt Levy explained in CCIA’s press release, this case could do a lot to fix the…
Washington – The Supreme Court may take up a case that many are hoping could resolve a division within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on patent eligibility of software. About half of the court has been following the Supreme Court’s guidance from the recent cases Bilski v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus, but several…
Washington – Those who like to skip TV commercials and those making the devices that help them do it won a key court victory Wednesday. A New York southern District Judge dismissed an argument by ABC that DISH Network’s commercial hopping feature on the company’s DVR violated ABC’s copyright. This victory comes on the heels…
The MPAA released a study today which claims that search engines “influenced” about 19 percent of visits to websites that predominately offer copyright infringing content. The report may mislead, however, because it derives its number not by counting search results followed to an infringing site, but by counting any user who visited a piracy site…
The MPAA released a study today which claims that search engines “influenced” about 19 percent of visits to websites that predominately offer copyright infringing content. The report may mislead, however, because it derives its number not by counting search results followed to an infringing site, but by counting any user who visited a piracy site…
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