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Artificial Intelligence
August 01, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
August 01, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 31, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Antitrust View More
August 02, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Consumers challenging Amazon’s pricing policies for third-party merchants urged a Washington federal judge to grant class certification — a move Amazon claims could create the “most complex” class in US class action history.
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US appeals court granted Google's emergency motion for an administrative stay of a lower court's permanent injunction issued in an antitrust case brought by Epic Games. Earlier this week, a thr... (more story)
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Department of Justice antitrust chief Gail Slater welcomed a US court decision denying a motion-to-dismiss by BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard in an energy antitrust lawsuit brought by the... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 01, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission has confirmed a voluntary code of practice as an official compliance tool under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models. Major AI developers including OpenAI, Google, xAI and Anthropic... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today confirmed that a voluntary code of practice has been formally recognized as an official compliance tool for the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models that will... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The efficiency and productivity dividends of artificial intelligence won’t be realized if AI tools don’t enjoy the trust and confidence of the Australian public, the country’s top privacy officia... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 03, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Asiana Airlines has been fined 12.1 billion won ($8.6 million) for failing to comply with merger remedies imposed by South Korea’s competition regulator as part of its approval of the airline’s merger with Kor... (more story)
August 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Asiana Airlines, a subsidiary of Korean Air, has been fined 12.1 billion won ($8.6 million) by the Korea Fair Trade Commission for violating remedies tied to the regulatory approval of its merger... (more story)
August 01, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
US Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota asked the Department of Justice's acting inspector general, William Bl... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 01, 2025
North America
Attorneys representing a class of women accusing Meta Platforms of illegally recording their private health data through its software development kits (SDKs) hailed a history jury verdict against the tech giant today.
August 01, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission has paused administrative proceedings in which it is seeking to reopen a 2019 privacy settlement so it can bar Meta Platforms from monetizing children’s data.
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta today lost a bid to amend answers to privacy allegations that it obtained Facebook users’ voice data without consent, violating Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. The judge found ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 01, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Pfizer and its German vaccines arm BioNTech have said that they will continue their fight to overturn a finding that their Covid-19 vaccine infringed Moderna’s mRNA patent. The UK Court of Appeal today denied ... (more story)
August 01, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In guidance released last night, US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart continued to chip away at the availability of inter partes review but this time with cover from the US Court ... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Headwater’s EP 2,391,947 has been partially revoked for France and Germany, the Unified Patent Court’s local division in Munich announced today. This decision comes amid Headwater's patent disput... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
August 01, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
Federal prosecutors intend to introduce evidence at Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez’s upcoming corruption trial that he bribed a now-deceased Venezuelan elections official with the use of... (more story)
August 01, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
A long-running US civil forfeiture case involving assets allegedly tied to an Odebrecht bribery and money laundering scheme will go to trial in the spring of 2026, a federal judge said today.
August 01, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
COIMA chief executive Manfredi Catella has been placed under house arrest by Italian prosecutors as part of an investigation into alleged corruption involving building permits in Milan. The Italian real estate... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's financial watchdog has proposed a redress program for car finance customers who were treated unfairly and estimates it will cost the industry between 9 and 18 billion pounds. The program... (more story)
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US district court approved a joint request between the Federal Reserve and a coalition of bank and business groups to extend a pause in litigation challenging the Fed’s stress testing framework... (more story)
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that its crypto task force will host a series of roundtables across the country to provide opportunities for additional stakeholders to meet wi... (more story)
Trade View More
August 01, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US Commerce Department improperly denied a deadline extension request from Jindal Poly, the sole respondent in the 2021 administrative review of the antisubsidy duty order on Indian polyethylene terephthal... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department's 2021 review results for an antisubsidy duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film from India.
August 01, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The Trump administration’s new 50 percent tariffs on copper and derivative products add to a growing list of sectoral duties, stacking with other metal tariffs to hit common goods and requiring additional mate... (more story)
State Aid View More
August 01, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
A negative incentive mechanism under Italy’s renewable energy support program can’t be reviewed by national courts, the EU’s top court ruled today, rejecting a referral in a dispute between hydroelectric opera... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A negative incentive mechanism under Italy’s renewables scheme can’t be assessed by national courts, the EU’s highest court said today, rejecting a referral in a dispute between Tiberis Holding a... (more story)
July 31, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Poland’s 47 million euro program to promote the shift from road to rail transport has secured EU state aid approval. The European Commission said the plan was necessary to promote the use of rail... (more story)
Energy View More
August 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking input to help develop a new law on the circular economy. The Circular Economy Act, set to be adopted by the end of 2026, aims to strengthen the EU’s economic se... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a consultation today on a law establishing a competitive market and transport infrastructure for carbon capture and storage. The new initiative supports the EU emis... (more story)
August 01, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called for the development of a next-generation power grid that incorporates AI technologies and addresses the growing use of renewable energy. The South Korean governm... (more story)
Technology View More
August 01, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said a US court denying asset managers BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard's motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought by a group of states... (more story)
August 01, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
X Corp. must face claims of negligence and product liability over its failure to promptly remove pornographic content involving minors, following a US appeals court’s order reversing a ruling that it was shiel... (more story)
August 01, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian antitrust authority's launch of an antitrust investigation into Microsoft is a "hugely significant step" for Opera and for the entire browser ecosystem, Gene Burrus, advisor to the ... (more story)