Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

The level of fines meted out by the UK antitrust regulator since it gained direct consumer enforcement powers is “extremely small,” the chair of a parliamentary committee said. Liam Byrne, chair of the cross-p... (more story)

The European Commission plans to withdraw its proposed Financial Data Access Regulation, or FIDA, within six months, according to a draft 2027 work program, obtained by MLex. The proposal, aimed at facilitatin... (more story)

MLex Summary: Prime Therapeutics and Express Scripts asked a US judge to move Florida’s antitrust claims against them to federal court based on Express Scripts’ federal contracts. The complaint alleges that th... (more story)

Streaming and broadcasting groups want authorities worldwide to curb alleged abuses in video standard essential patent licensing. In letters sent to government officials in the US, UK, EU, Germany and Brazil, ... (more story)

AI chatbots could infringe publishers’ rights when reproducing protected works, but Google may escape liability in a closely watched EU copyright case. The non-binding opinion of Advocate General Maciej Szpuna... (more story)

Netflix has failed to halt enforcement of a Unified Patent Court injunction won by DivX over a streaming-technology patent, despite the European Patent Office revoking the patent. Appeal judges said the revoca... (more story)

The European Commission plans to work on a “geoeconomic deterrence pact” to strengthen the EU’s response to global economic imbalances, according to its draft 2027 work program seen by MLex. The text gives no ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that Austria, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates are dumping imports of oil country tubular goods. Commerce gave preliminary dumping rates... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced that President Donald Trump has notified Congress he will remove Rwanda and South Africa from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade pref... (more story)

UK tech businesses facing regulatory barriers to growth should raise them with the government early, science, innovation and investment minister Chris McDonald has said. The government should become a “better ... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK organizations should urgently invest in cyber resilience to protect against AI-powered attacks targeting the country's economy and society, the National Cyber Security Centre said in a report ... (more story)

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s imposes an unjustifiable restriction on political communication while failing to protect children from the risks it targets, Reddit argued as the country’s top court ... (more story)