Computer & Communications Industry Association

The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC which represents the computer, Internet, information technology, and telecommunications industries. According to their site, CCIA "promotes open markets, open systems, open networks, and full, fair, and open competition." Established in 1972, CCIA was active in anti-trust cases involving IBM, AT&T and Microsoft, and lobbied for net neutrality and patent reform. CCIA released a study it commissioned by an MIT professor, which analyzed the cost of patent trolls to the economy.

Membership

CCIA members include corporations such as Dish Network, eBay, Facebook, Google, Intuit, LightSquared, Microsoft, nVidia, Sprint Nextel, and Yahoo.

Issues

Intellectual property

The group has lobbied on Internet freedom issues like the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act,testified on Internet censorship as a human rights and trade issue and also lobbied on privacy issues including government surveillance by the US National Security Agency CCIA has also lobbied for patent litigation reform, including the Innovation Act, and provides the website Patent Progress, which is dedicated to patent issues.