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Artificial Intelligence
June 03, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
June 03, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
June 03, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Antitrust View More
June 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China is proposing a revision for Regulations Prohibiting Monopolistic Agreements and is seeking public comments until July 3, the State Administration for Market Regulation said. The update clar... (more story)
June 04, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Stellantis Korea has been sanctioned by South Korea's competition regulator for unlawfully interfering with its dealers' business operations. According to the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the US-... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A court hearing to determine whether an Apple-targeted mass action in the UK over the operation of its iCloud service will be approved for trial is scheduled for November this year, the proposed ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 03, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Health insurance companies are under increasing scrutiny over their use of artificial intelligence to deny claims. US states are enacting new laws prohibiting using AI alone to deny insurance claims, while US ... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that the US AI Safety Institute will now be known as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, and will remain within the National Institute of... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A US judge signaled skepticism today over Flexport’s explosive claim that two former employees stole proprietary data to launch an AI-driven logistics rival, pressing the company to explain how a batch of ship... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A coalition comprised of the Rural Wireless Association, Communications Workers of America, Public Knowledge, New America’s Open Technology Institute and the Benton Institute for Broadband and So... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Midland, Texas-based Viper Energy agreed to acquire Denver-based Sitio Royalties in an all-equity transaction valued at approximately $4.1 billion, including net debt of about $1.1 billion. The t... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Surmodics asked the US District Court for the District of Illinois to compel Philips Healthcare to comply with a subpoena to produce information about devices it manufactured or sold with lubrici... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge has denied Meta Platform's motion to relieve CEO Mark Zuckerberg from being deposed in a privacy lawsuit over its Pixel tracking tool. The deposition had been ordered by a magi... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Electronic Privacy Information Center said that in response to EPIC's lawsuit, the Trump administration has agreed to pause its demand for SNAP recipients' personal data. EPIC said that in a ... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has signed HB 2008, amending the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act to prohibit the sale of precise geolocation data and the personal data of children younger than 16 "if the ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
June 03, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In the latest update to the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, the US Patent and Trademark Office drills down on the “first-filed” requirement for assessing priority based on an earlier-filed foreign app... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
An escalating UK parliamentary row over copyright protections in AI model training has seen the government press lawmakers in the unelected House of Lords to stop trying to use a data reform bill to insert suc... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Prolific patent litigant Intellectual Ventures flexed its portfolio might yesterday, accusing China’s Lenovo Group Limited of infringing six patents that trace their origins to fabless semiconductor company Tr... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 03, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle
North America
An Adani Group entity has denied engaging in sanctions evasion following a media report that US investigators have opened a new front in their probe of the Indian conglomerate’s business activities. In a filin... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Erica Williams, head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, said she is "deeply troubled" by Senate legislation eliminating the agency and folding its duties into the US Securities and... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Rockfire Investment Finance is under investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office over allegedly fraudulent solar farm bonds it sold to a UK council. The SFO said it had issued a series of notices compelling... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins told lawmakers that agency headcount has fallen from 5,000 to 4,200, or 16 percent, over the last year. This decline is due in large part t... (more story)
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Wells Fargo is no longer subject to the asset growth restriction from the US Federal Reserve's 2018 enforcement action against the bank, the Fed announced. The Fed determined that Wells Fargo has... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Bank of England's governor has defended bank ringfencing rules against a call by major UK lenders to scrap them so they can better support businesses across the economy. In a letter to the ch... (more story)
Trade View More
June 04, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China opposes the EU's proposed restriction that prevents Chinese medical device makers from bidding on public procurement contracts valued at more than 5 million euros during a five-year period,... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump has tapped Jeffrey Goettman, a former top official at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, to be a lead US Trade Representative deputy ambassador.
June 03, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: President Trump raised Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 percent. Steel and aluminum from the UK, however, will retain a 25 percent tariff rate.
State Aid View More
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU needs to improve the "agility, transparency and inclusiveness" of its program for cross-border strategic funding — also called Important Projects of Common European Interest — when it c... (more story)
May 29, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
A UK local authority accused of subsidizing a real estate developer defended itself in the country's specialized competition court today, arguing that loans it made were independently scrutinized and weren't a... (more story)
May 27, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Greater Manchester Combined Authority subsidized a real estate developer without going through the proper process to determine the pricing of loans, a rival told a UK specialized competition court. The challen... (more story)
Energy View More
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Members of the European Parliament have today called for the European Commission to resolve permit-granting bottlenecks for industrial energy access and decarbonization, enhance cross-border ener... (more story)
June 03, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
The legal pathway for the UK to re-join the European Union’s internal electricity market may be straight forward if the two sides can agree on a dedicated arbitration mechanism, but political support for the m... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is gathering input to feed its innovation strategy for nuclear fusion energy with the aim to accelerate commercialization of fusion as an innovative, decarbonized energy s... (more story)
Technology View More
June 03, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK companies should align their cybersecurity strategies with geopolitical risks, a top UK cyber official said today, as the government prepares to expand reporting requirements and broaden the scope of upcomi... (more story)
June 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament's industry committee approved an own-initiative report on European technological sovereignty. EU lawmakers called for "substantial investments and regulatory reforms to fo... (more story)
June 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US claims against Google and TikTok over the adequacy of reporting processes on their social media platforms opposed a motion to dismiss, arguing that while Section 230 of the... (more story)