MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US antitrust claims against PayPal over its anti-steering provisions still fail to allege injuries that are sufficiently direct and nonspeculative in their second amended comp... (more story)

Google has pushed back at claims by publishers that it rolled out AI Overviews in France without permission to use their content, and in breach of promises to the French antitrust agency. The search giant said... (more story)

An EU court has provisionally scheduled a hearing across two days in November for Apple's challenge to a €1.8 billion EU antitrust fine for squeezing consumers of music-streaming services, MLex has learned.

A Chinese court has upheld a 5-million-yuan ($741,000) damages award for tech giant Baidu in a trademark dispute, ruling that cross-border e-commerce sales may count toward damages when infringing conduct occurs in China.

Japanese content owners have helped Hanoi police build what Japan’s main anti-piracy group says is Vietnam’s first criminal case involving infringement of Japanese films, anime and television programs, as the ... (more story)

India's Patent Office is embracing artificial intelligence to speed patent examination while reserving decisions for human officers, but rigorous verification could erode the efficiency gains that the technolo... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Tuesday remanded the Commerce Department's rejection of an importer's request for exclusions on Section 232 duties for flat-rolled stainless steel products. 

Food-contact packaging containing levels of "forever chemicals" above new limits can no longer enter the EU market under a law that starts applying Wednesday. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation intro... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department released its quarterly update on cheese subsidies subject to an in-quota tariff rate, giving a zero percent rate to the European Union, Norway and Switzerland. Canada w... (more story)

MLex Summary: ACRO, the UK’s criminal records office, has been reprimanded by the country's privacy watchdog after cybersecurity failures jeopardized the personal information of almost 11,000 people. The Infor... (more story)

X Corp. has won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard aimed at curbing harmful content, with the court ruling that X is a social-media service and cannot also be regulated as a messaging servic... (more story)

MLex Summary: X Corp. on Wednesday won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard, with a federal judge ruling that the 2021 Online Safety Act treats social-media and messaging services as separate ... (more story)