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Data Privacy and Security

August 15, 2025 | Frank Hersey

Europe

Secrecy stopped Afghan data breach investigation, UK privacy watchdog reports
Headquarters of the World Trade Organization, WTO, at the Centre William Rappard, Geneva, Switzerland

Trade

August 15, 2025 | Zack Budryk

Asia

China initiates WTO dispute over Canadian steel tariffs
Retirees on the beach

Financial Services

August 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

UK consumers planning pension transfers may be poorly informed, watchdog fears

Antitrust View More

Las Vegas hotels, Cendyn win price-fixing suit as US appeals court affirms dismissal

August 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Las Vegas hotels and Cendyn — which provided the hotels with an algorithmic tool to set hotel room rates — did not have a vertical relationship, and there was no causal link showing an agreement and an anticom... (more story)

UnitedHealth files list of DOJ contacts related to Amedisys merger

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: UnitedHealth and Amedisys submitted to the US District Court for the District of Maryland a list of contacts at the US Department of Justice who participated in written or oral communications wit... (more story)

Harley-Davidson consumers denied appeals court revival of US antitrust case

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Harley-Davidson motorcycle buyers failed to state a claim that would allow their allegations of antitrust allegations against the company to move forward, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

US writers must disclose to OpenAI evidence of market harm, magistrate judge says

August 15, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

US writers accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement will have to disclose what information supports allegations that ChatGPT harms competition in the market for books, a US magistrate judge in New York said. ... (more story)

Trump enforcers distance themselves from Biden-era antitrust enforcement

August 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Gail Slater and the rest of the Trump administration are charting a path in antitrust enforcement that is becoming increasingly clear. "We can call it MAGA Antitrust. We could call it America First antitrust,"... (more story)

DOJ, NEC seek public comment on identifying US state laws with out-of-state economic impact

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and the National Economic Council announced an effort to identify state laws that significantly and adversely affect the national economy or interstate economic activ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

US DOJ asks to continue abeyance in TikTok case, file next status report by Oct. 14

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed a status report to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in the matter of TikTok v. the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, asking for th... (more story)

T-Mobile, UScellular oppose application for US FCC review of deal

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: T-Mobile and UScellular have submitted a joint filing to the US Federal Communications Commission opposing an application for review from the Rural Wireless Association, Open Technology Institute... (more story)

Lease deals that meet thresholds must be notified from Jan 1, Australian watchdog says

August 15, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Under Australia's new merger regime, certain acquisitions of leases and interests in land that meet the notification thresholds must be notified from Jan. 1, 2026, the Australian competition regu... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

High-stakes showdown over Google privacy controls set to begin in US court

August 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift

North America

The question of whether "off" actually means off in Google's privacy settings will be put to the test at a federal trial that opens next week in San Francisco. 

US appeals court partially stays discovery order in nationwide social media addiction case

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has stayed a magistrate judge’s order requiring attorneys general from 20 states to hand over documents from more than 250 s... (more story)

X Corp. seeks rehearing in appeal of US case over sex-trafficking

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: X Corp. asked a US appeals court to rehear a case bringing negligence and product liability claims against it based on defective reporting-infrastructure design, saying that the panel’s opinion r... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Apple brings back blood oxygen meters in setback for Masimo

August 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

Apple’s decision to reimplement the blood oxygen feature in its Apple Watch devices following a ruling by US Customs and Border Patrol — avoiding an exclusion order by the US International Trade Commission — i... (more story)

Authors oppose appeal in US copyright case against Anthropic

August 14, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Authors bringing US copyright claims against Anthropic opposed an appeal on class certification, saying that the order does nothing groundbreaking. “The petition presents none of the fair-use and... (more story)

This week in IP licensing and business: Aug. 1-14

August 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Asia, North America

Pharmaceutical deals led the way in patent business in the last two weeks. BioNTech and GSK grabbed headlines with a $500 million mRNA vaccine patent deal and settlement of infringement litigation, while Acces... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Latin music mogul sentenced to prison in US for work with cartel-linked promoter

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The chief executive of a Latin music conglomerate was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by conducting business... (more story)

US CFPB mass firings may proceed, appeals court rules

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The wholesale firings at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may proceed, a US federal appeals court ruled. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the lower court lacked jur... (more story)

Get on top of bad practice, head of fraud agency warns UK companies

August 15, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Companies need to get on top of bad practice or face the consequences, the head of the UK’s fraud agency told MLex, ahead of new anti-fraud legislation due to come into force in weeks.  

Financial Services View More

Which urges UK government to protect consumers amid financial rules overhaul

August 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK consumer group Which has reiterated its call to the government to continue protecting consumers, after the Labour administration pledged to slash regulatory red tape in its efforts to boost th... (more story)

US Fed’s Bowman calls for lower capital requirement for community banks

August 15, 2025 | Neil Roland

North America

US Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman, the Fed’s banking regulator, urged the central bank to consider lowering a capital requirement called the Community Bank Leverage Ratio from 9 percent to 8 percent ... (more story)

UK life insurers aiming for good outcomes in pension transfers, watchdog says

August 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: UK life insurers are well-intentioned and seek to ensure consumers receive good outcomes when transferring their pensions, the sector regulator said following a review. The Financial Conduct Auth... (more story)

Trade View More

USTR announces tariff-rate quota allocations for FY 2026 sugar imports

August 15, 2025

Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania

MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has announced country-specific and first-come, first-served in-quota allocations of tariff-rate quotas on imported raw cane sugar, refined and specialty ... (more story)

Chinese hexamine materially injures US industry, ITC finds

August 15, 2025

Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that US industry is materially injured due to imports of Chinese hexamine. The US Department of Commerce will now impose antidumping and antisubsi... (more story)

USTR sets October hearing on China's WTO obligations

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The office of the US Trade Representative announced an Oct. 7 public hearing on China's obligations to the World Trade Organization ahead of an annual report to Congress. The deadline for written... (more story)

State Aid View More

Manchester authority subsidy case dismissal can't be challenged, tribunal says

August 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The dismissal of a claim against Greater Manchester Combined Authority alleging it breached subsidy rules through a loan to a property developer can't be challenged, the Competition Appeal Tribun... (more story)

SAS's reimbursement of cancelled state aid prompts EU law questions

August 14, 2025 | Jean Comte

Europe

Top EU judges have been asked to rule whether airline group SAS must pay interest on a state aid that had been authorized by the European Commission, but subsequently cancelled by the EU's lower-tier court. Th... (more story)

Sunwoda can have EUR264 million from Hungary for EV battery plant, EU watchdog says

August 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Hungary has secured European Commission approval for its plans to grant 264 million euros in public funding to Sunwoda Automotive Energy Technology to set up an electric vehicle battery factory i... (more story)

Energy View More

EU economy’s emissions grew by 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025, EU says

August 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions increased by 3.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, reaching 900 million metric tons of CO₂, the EU statistical of... (more story)

UK FCA sees progress in SLL market, but identifies barriers

August 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK Sustainability-Linked Loans market is more mature and shows better practice when compared to 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority said today, while pointing out that there are still barri... (more story)

EU energy regulator approves power system operators’ security of supply outlook

August 14, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU energy regulator ACER today approved the 2024 security of supply risk assessment produced by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, or ENTSO-E. The 10-year outl... (more story)

Technology View More

Media Matters gets injunction against US FTC investigation

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A federal judge granted Media Matters for America's request for an injunction against an investigation launched by the US Federal Trade Commission, finding that the agency’s investigation is reta... (more story)

Injunction against Google over app store opens security risks, experts tell US appeals court

August 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Former national security officials and scholars warned a US appeals court that forcing Google to make changes to its app store in a monopolization lawsuit will significantly weaken the security p... (more story)

4chan issued provisional notice of online safety rules breach by UK watchdog

August 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Messaging platform 4chan has received a provisional notice of a breach of the Online Safety Act for failing to comply with two information requests from the media regulator Ofcom. The watchdog la... (more story)