MLex Summary: Chinese food-delivery platform Meituan’s proposed acquisition of Beijing Maiyatian Network Technology company will face a public hearing on Sept. 18 over whether commitments offered to address co... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Latvian municipality didn’t breach EU dominance-abuse rules when awarding a waste-management contract to a company in which it held a 51 percent stake, the EU’s top court has said. When awardin... (more story)

MLex Summary: Agribusiness Procam has agreed to pay a fine of more than 1 million zloty (£270,000) for unfairly exploiting its bargaining power over farmers, Poland’s competition and consumer authority said th... (more story)

A former employee whose patents were among intellectual property transferred within Japanese electronics group Murata for 4.3 billion yen ($28 million) was not entitled to a share of that value, a Tokyo court has ruled.

India's draft pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent guidelines incorporate recent court rulings, giving life-sciences companies clearer guidance on patentability, evidentiary requirements, diagnostic inventi... (more story)

The EU is looking to patents and other intellectual property assets to become a bigger source of financing for European companies, with its European Innovation Act aiming to unlock €10.2 billion a year while t... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce has extended its dumping investigation into pecan imports from Mexico and the US by six months, until March 25, 2027, citing the complexity of the case in a notice pu... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce has sought information from several French companies operating in China about subsidies received from the EU and its member states. Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling s... (more story)

The US pizza box industry is under imminent threat of being overtaken by unfairly traded imports from China, Malaysia and Turkey if duty orders aren't put into place, petitioners told the US government.

MLex Summary: A coalition of 19 civil society groups, businesses and academics, including Noyb, European Digital Rights and BEUC, called on EU legislators to retain a Digital Omnibus measure requiring companie... (more story)

MLex Summary: Ireland’s media regulator Coimisiún na Meán said 69 percent of children surveyed favored online-safety education over a social-media ban, as did 49 percent of parents and caregivers. Sixty-seven ... (more story)

Tech platforms face active monitoring over their efforts to stop the spread of illegal intimate images — including AI-generated deepfakes — after the UK regulator announced a new enforcement program. Ofcom sai... (more story)