Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Google, Meta Platforms and other major technology companies face calls to improve complaint handling, explain account suspensions and provide greater transparency over their dealings with Japanese businesses as Japan prepa...(read more)

Free TV Australia has asked the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to "urgently: review Meta Platforms’ proposed content-scraping terms, arguing they could breach misuse of market power laws and provisions on unf...(read more)

Kakao Mobility’s appeal against the South Korean competition regulator’s sanctions over alleged abuse of market dominance is nearing a conclusion, with the Seoul High Court seeking to hear final oral arguments in January. ...(read more)

Drugmakers secured experimental treatments, expanded biosimilar portfolios and renegotiated royalty obligations, while life-sciences companies acquired technology and resolved patent disputes. Elsewhere, licensing provided...(read more)

This week, the Unified Patent Court refused to suspend Netflix’s injunction despite the European Patent Office’s subsequent revocation of the patent at issue. Hamburg departed from other divisions by requiring each party t...(read more)

A Shanghai court ruling involving German engineering company Bosch shows how companies can recover costs from abusive intellectual property litigation through counterclaims, outlining criteria for identifying malicious law...(read more)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into certain Chinese imports of wooden fence components, with alleged dumping margins of 109.01 to 232.23 percent and ...(read more)

Talks on changes to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act are provisionally scheduled to resume on Dec. 9, as national governments have yet to agree on plans for a dedicated raw materials center, MLex understands. Both membe...(read more)

Nord Stream 2 has lost its final appeal against EU gas-market rules governing pipelines linking to non-EU countries. The EU Court of Justice upheld the extension of rules to pipelines connecting member states with states n...(read more)

Regulator Ofcom has been accused of taking a "minimalist" approach to implementing the UK's Online Safety Act. During a parliamentary session examining the impact of the law, witnesses said Ofcom was not using the full sco...(read more)

MLex Summary: California Representative Zoe Lofgren, the US House Science Committee ranking member, who will be seeking the chairmanship next year when Democrats control the House, said Congress needs to stop politicizing ...(read more)

MLex Summary: US House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., who is set to take charge of the committee once the Democratic majority is sworn in this January, said the committee's priority is to ...(read more)