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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 10, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
March 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Cross-industry guidelines clarifying how competition law applies to transactions involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data will be issued in Japan, the country’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesd... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate has underscored a broader push to integrate digital tools into legal supervision, with four annual white papers detailing how big data models and intelligent systems are ... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Standard-essential patent disputes should be steered back toward their contractual core rather than stretched to fit antitrust enforcement, a senior Chinese antitrust adviser said at a conference Wednesday in Shenzhen.
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of AI safety organizations and experts, including some involved in the standardization process of the AI Act, warned against a proposal currently being discussed in the European Parliamen... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Singapore has updated its Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Guidelines to strengthen governance of AI use in healthcare, clarifying responsibilities across developers, healthcare institutions and clinician... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s government on Wednesday approved a policy roadmap to migrate all administrative and public-sector information systems to cloud services by 2030. With the public-sector cloud transit... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: CRH’s acquisition of Gibson has been cleared in the UK following an initial antitrust probe of the deal in the construction materials sector. The Competition and Markets Authority said that the f... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK antitrust regulator risks a “credibility problem” by sitting on the sidelines to see how other regulators tackle global mergers before it decides whether it needs to investigate, a senior competition la... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK government’s proposal to scrap the independent panel of decision makers that oversee in-depth merger reviews raises the risk of future political influence in decision-making, NatWest Group’s head of com... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 11, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China’s top court is pressing ahead with new guidelines on data-rights protection, according to a senior judge, underscoring the growing urgency for legal clarity as disputes rise alongside the commercial use ... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top judicial authorities intensified a crackdown on emerging forms of cybercrime last year, targeting offenses enabled by artificial intelligence and online platforms as Beijing tightens oversight of t... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri spent a full day on the witness stand Tuesday during the New Mexico attorney general's trial over harm to minors on the platform, discussing the controls Meta Platforms has added t... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 11, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australian fashion designer Katie Perry’s trademark has been upheld by the country’s top court, which ruled it was validly registered and shouldn’t have been cancelled, overturning a lower court’s decision in ... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
French luxury sportwear brand Lacoste secured a permanent injunction from an Indian court against Crocodile International, barring the Hong Kong-headquartered company's standalone crocodile logo in India.
March 10, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, North America
Major brands can bolster their trademark portfolios with their own “.brand” top-level domains in ICANN’s application round that opens in April, FairWinds’ Josh Bourne told MLex. The domain approach, which may ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 10, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
Charges of foreign bribery and money laundering against Smartmatic are part of US President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his enemies over his loss in the 2020 election, the voting machine compan... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department has released its first-ever department-wide corporate enforcement policy for criminal matters, which it said provides concrete benefits to incentivize companies to volun... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A controversial plan to reform parts of the UK's justice system — including curtailing jury trials — will move to a next stage of parliamentary scrutiny after the government won a crunch vote on Tuesday. The r... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Proposals to simplify the EU digital legislative framework are an "important reform" and have the backing of the European Central Bank, it said in an opinion published on Tuesday. It particularly... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK-based trading platform JP Jenkins is set to host the first share sale on Pisces, the new regulator-backed private market venue. Board-game developer QPlay will use the platform for the transaction, which wi... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Europe
A plan to mobilize private capital for the clean energy transition was unveiled by the EU, which warned that public funding alone cannot meet the roughly €660 billion needed annually through 2030. The plan aim... (more story)
Trade View More
March 10, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that Bulgaria, Egypt and Vietnam are dumping steel concrete reinforcing bar. Commerce assigned a preliminary dumping rate of 52.8 percent t... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex summary: US freight rail coupler (FRC) producer McConway & Torley LLC filed an anticircumvention request into whether an importer, The Greenbrier Companies, Inc., is avoiding antidumping and antisubsidy d... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
INTA, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee, is set to vote on the EU-US trade deal on March 19 after it previously put its work on the dossier on hold, according to Jörgen Warborn, a key law... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 10, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
An investigation into Spain's plan to grant €20.7 million in regional aid to carmaker Peugeot for investing in its existing plant in Vigo has been closed. In a formal notice issued Tuesday, the European Commis... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU heads of states and governments will suggest a set of actions to support the bloc's competitiveness at their next summit on March 19 and 20, according to a draft of the final conclusions obtai... (more story)
March 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania has won EU approval for a €150 million plan to support the installation of new electricity storage capacity. The government will provide direct grants for standalone battery storage syste... (more story)
Energy View More
March 10, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Small modular nuclear reactors are aimed for deployment in Europe by the early 2030s under a European Commission strategy that backs a limited number of projects and closer regulatory alignment. The plan focus... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Small modular reactors could be deployed in Europe by the early 2030s, the European Commission has said in a strategy published on Tuesday. The plan calls for focusing on a limited number of proj... (more story)
March 10, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has published a plan to boost investment in clean energy, dubbed Clean Energy Investment Strategy, aimed at mobilizing private capital to meet the EU’s 2030 and 2050 clima... (more story)
Technology View More
March 11, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered Live Nation to try to hammer out a settlement with 39 US states and the District of Columbia that resolves the states' monopolization claims against the company whil... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Google agreed to drop its request for US Supreme Court review of its antitrust dispute with Epic Games. The parties notified the court that they had agreed to dismiss the case.
March 11, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
The plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and Google over social media addiction claims an expert hired by the defendants violated professional ethics for psychiatrists during an evaluation by asking questions in ... (more story)