The Application Developers Alliance praised Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) for introducing patent reform legislation that will protect startups and small businesses.
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Testimony of Jon Potter, President, Application Developers Alliance to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety & Insurance: “Demand Letters and Consumer Protection: Examining Deceptive Practices by Patent Assertion Entities”
Read MoreMany of America’s leading startup investors sent a letter urging Congress to enact broad patent reform. The letter, signed by 39 tech investors including early investors in Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Palantir, and Kickstarter, and delivered by the App Developers Alliance, Engine Advocacy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, calls on Congress to support reforms including making it easier to efficiently review patents at the PTO and increasing demand letter transparency.
Read MoreMore than thirty prominent tech startup investors sent a letter urging Congress to enact broad patent reform. The letter, delivered by the App Developers Alliance, Engine Advocacy, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, calls on Congress to support reforms including making it easier to efficiently review patents at the PTO and increasing demand letter transparency.
Read MoreThe Application Developers Alliance and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have urged a federal court to suspend a patent troll’s litigation attack against bedrock American companies, including Pizza Hut, Starwood, Hilton Hotels, Fandango, StubHub, and Open Table.
Read MoreThe App Developers Alliance is joining with law schools nationwide to help startups battle patent trolls. The Law School Patent Troll Defense Network is a consortium of law school clinics that will provide free legal representation to small app developers and other entrepreneurs that have been threatened or sued by patent trolls.
Read MoreThe App Developers Alliance sent a letter signed by 247 app developers, tech industry CEOs, and startup founders urging Congress to enact patent reforms, including cheaper, faster way to challenge bad patents that PTO never should have approved. Hundreds more Alliance members have sent personal messages directly to their Members of Congress.
Read MoreU.S. government-hosted talks on mobile app privacy concluded when leading consumer privacy advocates and mobile app industry stakeholders joined in support for a voluntary model for how apps communicate what information about consumers the apps are collecting and with what types of third parties, if any, that consumers’ data is shared.
Read MoreThe Application Developers Alliance applauded new Congressional action to eradicate patent trolls. Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Judy Chu (D-CA) introduced a bill to provide troll victims a lower-cost alternative to litigation when challenging the validity of patents that should never have been issued.
Read MoreThe Application Developers Alliance today praised the introduction of yet another bill to address abusive litigation by patent trolls. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Blake Farenthold (R-TX) introduced the legislation, entitled the Patent Litigation and Innovation Act.
Read MoreThe Application Developers Alliance applauded the growing momentum in Congress behind patent reform legislation that would give patent troll victims a lower cost alternative to challenging a poor quality patent in court.
In a court filing, the Application Developers Alliance argued the makers of user-configurable software are not directly liable when the user is capable of configuring the software in a way that infringes a patent.
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