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Intellectual Property
July 30, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America

Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
July 30, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe

Data Privacy and Security, Technology
July 30, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Antitrust View More
July 31, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
The clash between government-owned Air Calédonie International and New Caledonia’s travel agents appears to have come to an end, with the French Pacific territory’s antitrust watchdog announcing today that it ... (more story)
July 31, 2025 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj
Asia
Singapore’s competition watchdog has fined two rival Chinese yuan remittance service providers a combined S$5.36 million ($4.14 million) for exchanging pricing information, in a decision that reinforces how th... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore has fined two Chinese yuan remittance service providers a total of S$5.36 million ($4.14 million) for exchanging pricing information over a si... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 31, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Leading US AI companies are being forced to sign the EU code of practice for general-purpose AI models to get access to the bloc's large market, Michael Kratsios, the White House’s director for the Office of S... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Microsoft has signed the EU's code of practice for general-purpose AI models. The code is a voluntary compliance tool for the AI Act's rules for model providers that will take effect on Aug. 2. O... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s National Forensic Service has developed a new artificial intelligence system to assist in the efficient investigation of voice-phishing cases and plans to roll it out to investigati... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 31, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Spanish telecommunication company Telefónica told MLex it is "considering the possibility of filing an appeal" against the 20 million euro fine imposed by the Spanish antitrust authority for not abiding by a m... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: A proposal by CAR Group, the publicly listed owner of carsales.com.au, to acquire Mojo Holdco, the holding company for Machines4U, has attracted a public, informal review by Australia’s merger re... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Yamaha Motor Australia’s agreement with Bombardier Recreation Products and BRP Australia to acquire 100 percent of the shares in Telwater has attracted an informal review by Australia’s merger re... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 31, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
X Corp’s appeal of a court decision rejecting its challenge to an infringement notice issued by Australia’s online safety regulator was dismissed today, with a judge ruling that the social-media company was bo... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Six companies in Beijing have been fined by the Beijing Communications Administration for failing to enforce anti-fraud and real-name registration measures, according to penalty decisions release... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Internet regulator summoned representatives from Nvidia today over security risks, including potential backdoors in its H20 computing chips sold in China, and demanded that the US chipmak... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A Chinese court has finalized the criminal conviction of the operator of a Japanese anime piracy site that streamed over 30,000 unauthorized anime episodes, including 10,000 from Japanese rights ... (more story)
July 31, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
OpenAI is accusing the New York Times of destroying evidence that its employees used artificial intelligence tools for business purposes, according to filings in consolidated US litigation over training large ... (more story)
July 30, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Nick Robertson
North America
When US President Donald Trump unexpectedly jumped into a heated debate last week over the fairness of training artificial intelligence models on unlicensed content, tech lobbyists celebrated and creators groa... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Bank accounts used for online gambling transactions will be blocked in Indonesia as part of a collaboration between the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs and the Financial Transaction... (more story)
July 30, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets released a roadmap for the US to “lead the blockchain revolution” via a wide-ranging assortment of industry-friendly regulatory and legislative proposals,... (more story)
July 30, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Tornado Cash cofounder Roman Storm ran the cryptocurrency mixer as a money laundering business that was “especially suited” for protecting the privacy of criminals, US prosecutors said today in their closing a... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 30, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
A bipartisan bill to promote artificial intelligence in financial services was introduced in the US House and Senate. The legislation seeks to advance AI through regulatory sandboxes for test projects bringing... (more story)
July 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, cofounders and respectively the chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Samourai Wallet, each pleaded guilty today in New York federal ... (more story)
July 30, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A businessman facing a criminal investigation by the UK’s financial regulator for an alleged mortgage-linked scam was today handed a 12-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Iain Clifford Stamp, who ran... (more story)
Trade View More
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Starting on Aug. 1, South Korea will see tariffs on South Korean exports to the US reduced to 15 percent under a new trade agreement with the US, according to the South Korea’s Ministry of Trade.... (more story)
July 31, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US announced a universal 50 percent tariff on copper imports set to take effect Aug. 1. The new tariffs, which President Donald Trump signaled were forthcoming earlier in the month, follow US... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has concluded tariff negotiations with the US, backed by a $350 billion support fund aimed at key industries such as shipbuilding, semiconductors, batteries, biotech and energy, South... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 31, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Air Calédonie International, also known as Aircalin, has presented New Caledonia’s competition watchdog with behavioral undertakings in response to an antitrust complaint filed by the French terr... (more story)
July 30, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China convened a meeting this morning chaired by President Xi Jinping to assess the current economic situation and set priorities, emphasizing the need to regulate disordered competition and addr... (more story)
July 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: SHINE Technologies has welcomed the "tough" terms of a European Commission subsidy intervention against Dutch support to PALLAS, a Dutch-backed nuclear medical reactor. Pointing towards the publi... (more story)
Energy View More
July 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: New registrations of battery-electric vehicles in the EU fell by 6.1 percent in 2024 compared to 2023, according to new data released by EU statistical office Eurostat. Plug-in hybrid vehicle reg... (more story)
July 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU law postponing due-diligence requirements for battery producers by two years has been published in the bloc's official bulletin. The new rules will now take effect on Aug. 18, 2027. This d... (more story)
July 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking public feedback on draft terms and conditions for the third hydrogen auction under the EU Innovation Fund. Due to oversubscriptions in previous auctions, the EU... (more story)
Technology View More
July 31, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's proposed amendments to its 27 year-old Price Law would expand the country’s regulatory toolkit to counter destructive competition sweeping across multiple industries in the country. The envisioned legi... (more story)
July 31, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
A US judge has refused Apple’s request for both a bifurcated discovery schedule and split summary judgment structure, which would have focused on more quickly resolving what Apple claims is a timeliness proble... (more story)
July 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes for human rights abuses under the Global Magnitsky Act. De Mo... (more story)