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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
June 05, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Asia, Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security
June 05, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
Europe, North America
Antitrust
June 05, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Antitrust View More
June 06, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's antitrust regulator has identified risks in the country's patent database sector, warning that rising foreign investment in crucial intellectual property infrastructure threatens the country's technolo... (more story)
June 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lithuania’s antitrust enforcer is looking into whether dealers selling new cars and representing various manufacturers in the country are restricting their customers’ ability to seek maintenance ... (more story)
June 06, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Allegations of abuse of dominance filed against India's leading copper suppliers, Hindalco Industries and Vedanta, were dismissed by the country's antitrust watchdog. Airen Metals and Airen Copper alleged the ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 06, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan's antitrust regulator didn't find restrictions to key resources or tie-in sales in its first survey on generative artificial intelligence but did find concerns about future competition issues in the coun... (more story)
June 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: European telecom companies will soon have an opportunity to comment on European Commission plans for a new regulation to revamp the EU's telecom regulations. The Digital Networks Act, planned for... (more story)
June 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz unveiled his legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, arguing it would reduce deficits by more than $40 billion ov... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission is open to remedies as the agency remains focused on protecting competition, Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said in a keynote address at the USC Gould/Analysis Group... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
The stage is set for the US Supreme Court to decide whether to take up American Airlines’ request to review a lower court ruling on its joint venture with JetBlue — a case that could clarify the application of... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Latin America
MLex summary: Brazil’s competition authority today published notification of its approval, through a fast-track review, of BRF's incorporation by Marfrig. The merged company will adopt the new name MBRF Global... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 06, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Shanghai Communications Administration has announced that routine inspections identified 50 apps and software development kits that violated user rights, including an app operated by luxu... (more story)
June 06, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha
Oceania
This week’s conclusion by New Zealand’s privacy watchdog that a six-month facial-recognition trial by supermarket chain Foodstuffs North Island didn’t clash with the country’s privacy law may prove to be a Pyr... (more story)
June 06, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Ministry of State Security, China's national intelligence and counter-espionage authority, has flagged data leak risks stemming from foreign espionage network attacks. It cited three cases: t... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 06, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
IndiaMART, the online marketplace, can continue using brand names like "Puma" in its seller drop-down menus but must remain diligent in addressing trademark infringements. This significant ruling by a two-judg... (more story)
June 06, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Dutch health technology giant Philips suffered a setback in its patent dispute with consumer electronics company Shenzhen Soocas Technology when China's Supreme People's Court upheld an earlier ruling by the c... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, North America
Protracted trademark litigation between competing sesame oil makers that spawned multiple appeals and an unsuccessful petition for US Supreme Court review could finally go to trial later this year. A Californi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 05, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
Three social-media "finfluencers" face criminal charges brought by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority as part of an international crackdown on personalities promoting illegal services online. The FCA said it... (more story)
June 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Several members of the House of Representatives introduced what they called the "End Corruption Now" legislative agenda, a suite of six bills aimed at confronting political corruption and cleanin... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Senate budget reconciliation bill would fold the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the Securities and Exchange Commission for “political and ideological” rather than fiscal reasons, 46 expe... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 05, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: In its semiannual report on the foreign exchange policies of US trading partners, the US Treasury Department concluded that no major US trading partner engaged in currency manipulation to prevent... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde told the press today in Frankfurt that she will complete her term, which is due to end in 2027. She was responding to reports suggesting she might leave the in... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Chris May
North America
The US Supreme Court backtracked today on its decision to take up a dispute involving class certification standards, leaving intact an appeals court decision that dissenting Justice Brett Kavanaugh said is “in... (more story)
Trade View More
June 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of 1,4-Butanediol from China, Saudi Arabia and the United States are now under investigation to see if the product has been dumped, to the detriment of the EU industry. The probe follows ... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Europe, North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today mostly ruled against the Commerce Department in its 2018 antidumping review of pasta from Italy, remanding to the federal agency the issue of its calculati... (more story)
June 05, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the Commerce Department erred in its 2018 antidumping review on pasta from Italy. A three-judge panel said Commerce erred in calculatin... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 05, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Joanna Sopinska and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have signed a deal to provide nuclear reactors at the Dukovany power plant less than a month after the European Commission warned such a move would breach a... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Unscripted audiovisual programs with Irish and European cultural content can get national support, the European Commission said today, clearing a government program worth 211 million euros. The p... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies, authorities and other interested parties now have the chance to provide input to the European Commission to help it assess how the service of general economic interest state aid rules ... (more story)
Energy View More
June 05, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Europe’s sustainable jet fuel industry has a clear mandate to reduce emissions but lacks the technologies needed to supply fuel at scale beyond 2030, according to a new study from SAF supplier SkyNRG. Most sus... (more story)
June 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s nuclear sector could generate over 330 billion euros of economic output and create more than 1.5 million jobs by 2050 if nuclear capacity was to reach 150 gigawatts by 2050, according to... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Six emerging technologies will join the EU’s scrutiny list as part of its economic security review, which already includes advanced semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and biotechnolo... (more story)
Technology View More
June 06, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Allowing the practice of “sideloading” would pose significant risks to user security, privacy and safety, and allowing third-party payments on Apple’s iOS operating systems is unlikely to bring any proven proc... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
A cluster of US state bills aimed at blocking the use of algorithmic rent-setting tools is seeing mixed outcomes this year — from a breakthrough in Connecticut to a dead end in Colorado — even as a proposed ba... (more story)
June 05, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A proposed class that alleges Apple’s iPhone design led to the misuse of cellular data shouldn't be certified because the alleged defects were individual and caused no economic injury, the company told a US fe... (more story)