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End of the Road
Read more: End of the RoadAfter a decade of advocating for the developer community, the time has come to wind down the Developers Alliance. For some of you, this may come as a shock. As…
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Takes on Patent Trolls
Read more: House Energy and Commerce Committee Takes on Patent TrollsYesterday, Danny Seigle, director of business operations at FindTheBest, was on Capitol Hill to testify about the startup’s battle with a patent troll.
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Protecting Innovators From Patent Trolls’ Favorite Bullying Tactic: Abusive and Fraudulent Demand Letters
Read more: Protecting Innovators From Patent Trolls’ Favorite Bullying Tactic: Abusive and Fraudulent Demand LettersTestimony 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”
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Leading Venture Capitalists Call on Congress to Stop Patent Trolls
Read more: Leading Venture Capitalists Call on Congress to Stop Patent TrollsMany 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…
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America’s High Tech Investors Call on Congress to Stop Patent Trolls
Read more: America’s High Tech Investors Call on Congress to Stop Patent TrollsMore 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.
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App Developers Alliance and Electronic Frontier Foundation Join to Stop Patent Troll
Read more: App Developers Alliance and Electronic Frontier Foundation Join to Stop Patent TrollThe 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.
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Snapchat, CBS, Flurry Among Industry Influencers to Discuss App Monetization Strategy
Read more: Snapchat, CBS, Flurry Among Industry Influencers to Discuss App Monetization StrategySnapchat, Flurry, CBS, OpenX, SessionM and other industry-leading publishers and platforms will participate in a Monetization Workshop for mobile app developers hosted by the Application Developers Alliance on October 18.
