U.S. General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service Office of IT Schedule 70 Contract Operations IT Schedule 70 RFI Response: Proposed SIN 132-4 and 132-9 Retirement I am President of AscdiNatd, the Association of Service and Computer Dealers International and the North American Association of Telecommunications Dealers, an international trade association… Read More
To: Office of the United States Trade Representative FROM: Joseph Marion, ASCDI President Docket Number USTR-2019-0012 Request for Comments to Compile the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers Submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov Submitted on: October 10, 2019 The Association of Service and Computer Dealers International… Read More
Former Commerce Assistant Secretary Jim Jochum to hold private Q&A with ASCDI members. Trade at the Trump Administration tariffs are clearly on everyone’s mind. To help us navigate these complex issues, we were honored to have Secretary Jochum, formerly the head of the Export and then Import Administration speak to… Read More
ASCDI has been very active on the federal front working on a variety of issues critical to the industry. Protecting your right to resale against overzealous rights’ holders is among our top priorities. Working with the Customs Department to ensure that goods aren’t wrongly held at the border and expanding… Read More
Anu Gavini, former President and COO of Sandler Travis Trade Advisory Services, which was recently acquired by UPS, will be joined by three AscdiNatd member-company Executives for a practical discussion of Best Practices in the face of an uncertain and confusing tariff environment. Hear how some of your peers are… Read More
Copyright is a legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution. This is usually only for a limited time. In recent years, some brand holders have misused copyright to try to prevent the resale and service by anyone other than themselves. … Read More
We are making headway. Several years ago legislators never heard from the small and medium size companies that make up our membership. Things have changed. A few months ago we met with the US Library of Congress and explained to them how some manufacturers were using software to control the… Read More
Andrew Shore, Executive Director of the Owners’ Rights Initiative, released the following statement in response to Omega’s petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the case of Omega SA v. Costco Wholesale Corporation. “The Supreme Court in Wiley v. Kirtsaeng definitively established the right to resell, lend or give away… Read More
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD SEPT. 7, 2015 American patent law should not be used to prevent consumers from reselling, altering or fixing technology products. A federal appeals court will soon hear a case that could clearly establish this principle. Lexmark International v. Impression Products, which is before the United States… Read More
The following piece was co-authored by R Street Innovation Policy Director Mike Godwin and was originally posted on the www.rstreet.org website. During the Great Depression, farm-equipment giant John Deere Co. famously refused to repossess tractors it had sold to American farmers who were having difficulties keeping up with their payment… Read More