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CCIA Met With Incoming Maltese Ministers Ahead Of EU Presidency
October 26, 2016
CCIA met with Maltese ministers in Valletta on October 20-21 to discuss Malta’s EU Presidency. Malta will during the first half of 2017 steer EU Member States’ negotiations on important issues i...
CCIA, Tech Industry Delegation Meets Upcoming Maltese EU Presidency
October 19, 2016
Valletta, Malta -- The tech industry is meeting with Maltese ministers in Valletta today and tomorrow to discuss Malta’s Presidency of the Council of the EU starting 1st January.
The delegation wil...
CCIA, Industry Groups Ask For Better Digital Trade Terms In TiSA
October 17, 2016
Washington -- Ahead of negotiations this week on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), the Computer & Communications Industry Association and six other tech associations sent a letter to the U...
Supreme Court Appears Likely To Modify Lower Court’s Design Patent Decision
October 11, 2016
Washington -- The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the first design patent case it has heard in 120 years. The high court is considering lowering the $399 million a district court awarded Apple....
FTC Releases Results Of Patent Troll Study At CCIA, AAI Event
October 6, 2016
Washington -- FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez released the results of a 2 year investigation into patent troll operations at an event co-hosted by the American Antitrust Institute and the Computer & ...
Internet Addressing System To Transition To ICANN As Planned After Last-Ditch Effort To Derail Fails In Court
September 30, 2016
Washington -- The Department of Commerce is scheduled to transition administration of the technical underpinnings of the Internet’s addressing system to the private sector-led multi-stakeholder comm...
WTO Public Forum: Enabling Human Rights and Inclusiveness through Digital Trade
September 26, 2016
New technologies create novel opportunities for social inclusion and economic growth around the globe yet online freedoms appear to be deteriorating.
When does suppression of online rights become a t...
DG Competition Reveals First Results of E-Commerce Sector Inquiry; Online Marketplace Bans Remain a Problem
September 15, 2016
Brussels, BELGIUM -- Today DG Competition published its preliminary report on the E-commerce Sector Inquiry. The sector inquiry was launched in May 2015 as part of the Commission’s Digital Single Ma...
European Commission releases Copyright and Telecom rules: end of Europe’s digital single market ambitions?
September 14, 2016
Brussels, BELGIUM -- The European Commission issued its proposals on Telecoms and Copyright today as part of the Digital Single Market Framework. Both proposals will impact Internet users, online serv...