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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 23, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 21, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Trade
February 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
North America
Antitrust View More
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced a joint public inquiry regarding potential additional guidance on collaborations among competitors. Th... (more story)
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Deckers Outdoor, the owner of the UGG brand, has been accused in a US complaint of using hundreds of sham trade dress lawsuits asserting unprotectable, unregistered product-design trade dresses a... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Citeo, an organization that works to reduce the environmental impact of the packaging, has received informal guidance from France’s competition regulator on its plan for a standardized deposit-re... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta is facing a new lawsuit in Germany over its unlawful use of data from Instagram and Facebook to train its AI system, as well as for the “addictive design” of its AI chatbot. Stichting Onderz... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The British Equity Collecting Society (BECS) has exercised an optout for its audiovisual performers from the EU’s text and data mining exception, part of the EU’s Directive on Copyright in the Di... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Organizations worldwide must follow a set of four principles to guard against AI-generated image abuse, say a coalition of data protection authorities in a joint statement Monday. They must imple... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 23, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Getty Images and Shutterstock announced Monday they received antitrust clearance from the US Department of Justice for their $3.7 billion acquisition of Shutterstock without conditions. The companies confirmed... (more story)
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The American Economic Liberties Project said the US Department of Justice's approval of the merger between Getty Images and Shutterstock "is an attack on labor" and an attempt to "force lower roy... (more story)
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Gilead Sciences has agreed to buy US blood cancer drug developer Arcellx for an equity value of $7.8 billion. The transaction was approved by Gilead and Arcellx's boards of directors and is antic... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In advance of oral argument at the Supreme Court of Canada between Facebook and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, a series of data privacy groups ranging from the British Columbia... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK's two key tech sector watchdogs, Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office, have yet to show that the government's agenda to enlist their help in growing the economy can be a good fit. Even the co... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK digital identity providers face regulatory hurdles to expand across borders, with most calling for government action to align rules with international standards, says a government survey publi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will adopt during the second quarter of this year the new version of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation, or TTBER, according to a presentation made to EU m... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Consideration of potential bad faith in UK trademark disputes will be based on the earlier EU filing date in cases where the trademark predates Brexit, following a UK judgment on Monday. The ruling is part of ... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Germany’s top court backed VoiceAge in its standard essential patent dispute with HMD, ruling that companies must provide prompt financial security to rely on EU antitrust defenses. Judges rejected a rigid rea... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 23, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The director of plane parts supplier AOG Technics has been jailed for four years and eight months in a UK court for faking safety certificates for 60,000 aircraft components. Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala had ad... (more story)
February 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Geoffrey Magistrate, a resident of Limassol, Cyprus, was sentenced in the US to 18 months in prison for money laundering, the US Department of Justice said. Magistrate operated as a corporate ser... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge on Friday cleared all deadlines in the money laundering case against Peter Weinzierl, the former chief executive of a defunct Austrian bank, after his lawyers said he can better participate in his d... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 23, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU lawmakers have set a timeline to negotiate a unified stance on a comprehensive proposal aimed at better integrating and supervising the bloc’s capital markets, with a draft common position to be issued in e... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Single Resolution Board on Monday published updated operational guidance for banks on separability — isolating parts of a bank in crisis — and transferability — transferring or selling them t... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Reality TV stars who acted as online “finfluencers” to illegally promote foreign-exchange trading via their personal Instagram accounts have pleaded guilty to charges brought by the UK’s financial regulator. T... (more story)
Trade View More
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report that found multinational firms relocated portions of their manufacturing to the US while retaining their production and mark... (more story)
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Agriculture has opened the enrollment period for the Farmer Bridge Assistance program to provide $11 billion in assistance to crop growers impacted by trade. The window for f... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU-US trade relations are again entering a period of uncertainty, after Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he would impose a global tariff of 15 percent. As the European Commission seeks more certain... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Be Smart has seen the EU publish a summary of the company's appeal, challenging an EU finding that Italian financing for Cineca — a non-profit consortium providing IT services — did not qualify a... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Greece has been granted EU state aid approval for €77 million ($90.8 million) in investment to restore and modernize the main stadium of the Olympic Athletic Centre of Athens, the European Commis... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Cypriot measures to finance the construction of a soccer stadium in the city of Limassol, including preferential conditions for three professional football clubs, have been approved under EU stat... (more story)
Energy View More
February 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Hungary has threatened to block the 20th sanctions package and the €90 billion European loan to Ukraine if oil transit does not resume soon through a pipeline damaged at the end of January. Hungary and Slovaki... (more story)
February 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has defended its use of urgency clauses to bypass impact assessments in three legislative cases, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive which requires ... (more story)
February 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has updated EU heavy-duty vehicle rules to integrate onboard fuel and energy consumption monitoring devices into the type-approval system. Manufacturers must now demonstra... (more story)
Technology View More
February 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Adult website operator 8579 LLC has been issued a record £1.35 million fine by UK regulator Ofcom for failing to implement age checks required by the country's online safety law on several sites including craz... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Porn website operator 8579 LLC was fined £1.35 million by UK regulator Ofcom on Monday, for failing to use age checks as required by the Online Safety Act. The regulator also imposed a £50,000 pe... (more story)
February 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster have filed a motion to stay and to certify an interlocutory appeal in a monopolization lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice and several US st... (more story)