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Intellectual Property
July 04, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Intellectual Property
July 04, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Trade
July 04, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Asia
Antitrust View More
July 04, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Google has been challenged before the European Commission and the British competition authority in an antitrust complaint for abuse of its AI summaries in online searches. A group of publishers and tech justic... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Martijn Snoep will continue as chairman of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets after ministers approved his reappointment. Previously a lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Sn... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Apple, Sony, Mastercard and Visa have lost their bid to persuade UK appeal court judges that third-party litigation funding agreements underpinning collective claims against them are unenforceable. Their chall... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Malaysian government has tapped Toshiba Digital Solutions to help it transform the country’s agricultural sector through artificial intelligence and digital innovation. In a statement today, ... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea’s new government has pledged new policy incentives to promote the construction of additional data centers, reaffirming the administration’s commitment to accelerate efforts to close the country’s g... (more story)
July 03, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Amy Miller
North America
The race to automate with AI agents comes with major security risks, as they can easily be used to identify vulnerable targets, hijack systems and steal valuable data from unsuspecting victims. A flaw in Micro... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 04, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
One year after Labour came to power, fresh policy plans suggest that the UK government might be giving itself leeway for wider intervention in mergers to protect economic interests and enable domestic business... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Primary Health Properties’ planned acquisition of Assura is to be probed by the UK antitrust regulator, which is seeking views on the deal from interested parties until July 18. The Competition a... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Investment firm Recon Oleander's investment in logistics company RJLF4; Japanese machinery manufacturer NSK's acquisition of NSK Steering & Control; and Marubeni Corporation, a trading and invest... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 04, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey
Europe
TikTok has failed in its initial legal effort to quash an appeal to reinstate a 12.7 million pound ($17.8 million) fine issued by the UK's privacy watchdog in April 2023 over children’s data misuse, court docu... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A UK tribunal has found in favor of the Information Commissioner, in the preliminary issue of its appeal against a lower court, which had initially found in favor of TikTok’s own appeal against a... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany’s data protection authorities said today that operators of critical infrastructure should be able to use a single reporting process for cybersecurity incidents under the EU’s new NIS2 dir... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 04, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Two leading Chinese battery-material manufacturers are embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle over alleged trade secret misappropriation involving lithium hexafluorophosphate technology, a critical component ... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Japanese patent claim for a method of deodorizing rooms after corpse decomposition has failed to clear evidentiary hurdles, with the country’s IP appeals court ruling that the allegedly infringing cleaning p... (more story)
July 03, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
With the strongest patent advocate set to leave the Senate after the 2026 election, there is no clear successor to North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis’s leadership among Republicans. Tillis’s retirement announc... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 04, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Martin Coyle
Europe
A former Janus Henderson analyst who made almost a million pounds by illegally trading in stocks including Daimler and Jet2 was today jailed for six years in a London court.
July 04, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Two men who bombarded investors with cold calls in a crypto scam that netted them 1.5 million pounds ($2.1 million) have been jailed for more than 11 years in total today in the latest case of a growing trend ... (more story)
July 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US House of Representatives passed 218-214, with two Republicans defecting, a sprawling Senate bill to cut taxes, medical services and food assistance that also slashed the funding cap for th... (more story)
Financial Services View More
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's investment firms and trading venues are being consulted to remove the Systematic Internaliser regime for bonds and derivatives. The regime regulates investment firms dealing on their own... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Financial and non-financial companies may be exempt from certain reporting obligations under the EU’s classification system for sustainable economic activities, known as the EU Taxonomy, the Euro... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Chief Risk Officers at UK life insurers that underwrite bulk purchase annuities have been warned by the Prudential Regulation Authority of the risks stemming from Solvency-Triggered Termination R... (more story)
Trade View More
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ukrainian and EU exporters of farm goods today saw the publication of the tariff-rate quotas that will apply under their revamped Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. The new quotas — covering... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s decision to impose definitive anti-dumping duties averaging 32.2 percent on imports of EU wine-based spirits, marc-based spirits, and brandies as of 5 July is unjustified and poses a sign... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has decided to impose five-year anti-dumping duties ranging from 27.7 percent to 34.9 percent on certain brandy imports from the EU, starting July 5, according to the final ruling issued to... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 02, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has seen the European Commission resume its foreign subsidy probe into the state-owned company's takeover of German chemicals group Covestro, following a five-week suspension. Th... (more story)
July 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain and Cellnex Telecom have lost their legal challenge to a European Commission decision that ordered Spain to recoup illegal state funding from digital terrestrial TV operators. Spain backed ... (more story)
July 02, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Estonia has seen the European Commission issue the text of its earlier decision to order the country to claw back illegal public funding granted to agricultural business Tartu Agro. Last year, th... (more story)
Energy View More
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Six battery manufacturing projects for electric vehicles will receive a total of 852 million euros in EU grants to support investment in the bloc’s domestic battery industry, the European Commiss... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pan-European associations are being encouraged by EU energy regulator ACER to join a new stakeholder group on the role of demand response in the EU power market. The group will bring together exp... (more story)
July 04, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East
MLex Summary: The BRICS nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates--produced 51 percent of global solar power in 2024, energy think tank ... (more story)
Technology View More
July 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google should update its EU choice screen on Android to allow users to place their selected browser in the hotseat, a key position on the bottom of the home screen on mobile devices, campaign gro... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s data protection authority is considering tighter rules to protect children’s personal data, following a recent G7 meeting where the issue was identified as a shared priority among privacy regulators. K... (more story)
July 04, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Meta Platforms wants a common digital age of majority across the European Union, the tech giant announced today. This means that teens below the set age limit would require parental approval to access digital ... (more story)