A Chinese supermarket suppliers’ group has warned that accelerating consolidation among fresh-grocery front-warehouse operators could give large, capital-backed platforms greater influence over pricing and sup... (more story)

MLex Summary: Vietnam has released draft amendments to Decree 35, which implements parts of the country’s Competition Law, for public consultation until Aug. 15, according to a statement Friday by the Vietnam ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's Competition Commission, or KPPU, is examining possible competition concerns in North Sumatra's cement market after a preliminary review found simultaneous shortages across several bra... (more story)

China’s top intellectual property regulator rejected a patent application that relied on an artificial intelligence chatbot response to support its inventive-step arguments, clarifying how AI output should be ... (more story)

An Indian high court ruling draws a distinction between accessing licensed content and commercially exploiting it. The Calcutta High Court order, while limited to a single hotel, could potentially require hote... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified last week that the prohibition on presuming irreparable harm for permanent injunctions under eBay v. MercExchange and subsequent Federal Circuit preced... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade has sided with the Commerce Department in upholding Commerce's negative determination in its countervailing duty investigation of glass wine bottles.

EU governments, industry and campaign groups broadly back the European Commission’s planned Critical Raw Materials Centre, while differing over how far its powers should extend. Responses to a public consultat... (more story)

The EU’s push to tackle Chinese overcapacity will require a definition tight enough to capture state-backed structural oversupply, without encompassing ordinary export success. As Brussels weighs new or broade... (more story)

A former Meta Platforms researcher accused the company of unethically suppressing and interfering with internal research related to user experience, a jury in Tennessee heard in the ongoing trial of the US sta... (more story)

Years before TikTok was sued on addictive design claims, employees voiced worries about the many children under age 13 on the platform, and whether the company could be liable for inappropriate conduct, accord... (more story)

MLex Summary: A federal appeals court has dismissed appeals by Meta Platforms and TikTok for district court rulings about the limits of the companies' legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Dec... (more story)