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July 03, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
July 02, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 02, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
July 03, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
The Australian antitrust case against Mastercard remains mired in discovery issues with the competition regulator today challenging the company’s claim of legal professional privilege over some documents. In a... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Italian antitrust authority has opened talks with the EU regulator over airfares’ opaque algorithmic pricing in Italy. The regulator’s preliminary market investigation raises concerns on the... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Belgian competition authority imposed fines worth more than 49.3 million euros in 2024, the watchdog said in its latest activity report issued this week. In the same period, it also performed... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 03, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intellectual property authority has clarified that while artificial intelligence can assist in examining patent applications, its role is strictly auxiliary, and that the reasoning or output of AI ... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Major European companies such as Mistral, Airbus and ASML have signed an open letter calling on the European Commission to pause the EU AI Act for two years — before key obligations take effect —... (more story)
July 03, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong's existing privacy regulations are robust enough to handle challenges posed by artificial intelligence, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang said today. The Legislative Counc... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 03, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Affiliates of 3G Capital Partners and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC have sought approval from the Indian antitrust watchdog for their planned $9.4 billion acquisition of US footwear and apparel giant S... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into Paramount's $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over election interference claims against CBS, questioning if any a... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against subsidiary CBS over alleged election interference through the editing of a "60 Minutes" intervi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s top anti-graft agency and a provincial supervisory commission have launched disciplinary and legal investigations into Yu Shiyang, director of the Big Data Development Department at the S... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Vietnamese government has released the official list of “core” and “important” data as part of the documents supporting implementation of the Law on Data, which took effect July 1. The list, ... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The increase in Brazil's age rating for users of Instagram is just one of the steps the country is taking to protect children and adolescents.
Intellectual Property View More
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: In two separate orders, the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court has ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility and Flextronics against Headwater Research. The parties are involved in paral... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Advanced Bionics and Med-El appealed a decision maintaining EP 4,074,373, but later agreed to withdraw the revocation action and counterclaim. The Appeal Court of the Unified Patent Court accepte... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A request from Network Systems Technologies to allow multiple US attorneys to access Qualcomm's confidential information in three patent infringement cases was rejected by the Court of Appeal of ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Belarusian nitrogen compound maker Grodno Azot today lost its appeal of an earlier ruling which confirmed that it had been correctly included in a list of companies sanctioned for backing the cou... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $608,825 settlement with Key Holding, a Delaware-based logistics firm, for 36 apparent violations of sanctions on Cuba th... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A Texas federal judge granted a government request to hold a lawsuit against the Corporate Transparency Act's beneficial ownership requirements in abeyance as the Treasury Department works on a new rule.
Financial Services View More
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Tech company Ediphy has been selected as the first bond consolidated tape provider by the European Securities and Markets Authority. Ediphy had led a group, called FairCT — including Google Cloud... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The EBA has launched a consultation today, running until October 15, on its draft amended guidelines on the application of the definition of default under the Capital Requirements Regulation, or ... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US House Democrat Maxine Waters introduced an amendment to Republicans' sprawling tax cut bill that passed the Senate which would strike its provision to nearly halve the US Consumer Financial P... (more story)
Trade View More
July 03, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China has voiced strong opposition to any country entering trade agreements with the US that could harm Chinese interests, a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson told a press briefing today in respo... (more story)
July 03, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
The US has lifted export restrictions on advanced chip-design software to China, marking the latest development in efforts to de-escalate trade tensions between the two nations. Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence —... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of tube and pipe fittings from Korea, Malaysia and Russia will continue to face punitive dumping duties at EU borders, the European Commission said, following an expiry review that starte... (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 02, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU exporters of carbon-intensive goods will get compensation funded by revenues from the bloc’s carbon border tax, according to a European Commission document published today. The proposed scheme — to be unvei... (more story)
July 02, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Former Goldman banker Asante Berko has asked a US judge to throw out a corruption case against him, arguing, among other things, that the indictment was improperly sealed and his arrest was unrea... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Renewable and storage companies, along with grid operators, received new guidance today from the European Commission aimed at lowering energy prices and accelerating the energy transition. The three non-bindin... (more story)
Technology View More
July 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France’s 3-euro minimum shipping fee for book orders under 35 euros may comply with EU law if it's shown to protect cultural diversity and meets the requirements of proportionality, necessity and... (more story)
July 03, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Semiconductor technology developer Synopsys said the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has lifted export restrictions affecting its products in China. The curbs were ini... (more story)
July 02, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Amazon is fighting against the US Federal Trade Commission's allegation that it engaged in bad-faith behavior by falsely withholding evidence in litigation pursued by the agency targeting the company's alleged... (more story)