Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Technology
November 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 11, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
November 12, 2026
MLex Summary: The Dutch competition authority has cleared a plan by a fishing cooperative, the Coöperatieve Visserij Organisatie, to impose temporary limits on its members to prevent overfishing of North Sea shrimp. The sc...(read more)
MLex Summary: The EU's fine of nearly €1.5 billion on Google — for restricting competition in online advertising — should face a fresh court review after judges wrongly annulled it, according to a legal opinion for the Cou...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s new public-interest litigation law, set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, gives prosecutors a clearer framework for antitrust lawsuits, but leaves questions about how far those cases can reach. These include whether ...(read more)
MLex summary: The European Commission has published an implementing regulation on AI regulatory sandboxes, allowing AI systems to be developed and tested in real-world conditions under regulatory supervision before enterin...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
South Korea plans to update its copyright registration guide for AI-assisted works and develop a platform to help AI companies identify rights holders and license literary works for training, a culture ministry official sa...(read more)
MLex Summary: Accountability for AI-driven harms should be shared among those involved in developing and deploying the systems, with clear routes for consumers to complain and seek redress, the UK’s Digital Regulation Coop...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Miner MMG is rushing to improve a remedy package to EU regulators, who are scrutinizing its plan to buy Anglo American’s nickel business in Brazil. The previous offer had drawn negative feedback, it said. The new offer inc...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Philippine merger reviews increasingly require consideration of competition risks beyond traditional market shares and pricing, including conglomerate effects, digital-market dynamics and competition for resources used in ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Retail chain Rewe has received approval from Germany's competition authority to acquire up to seven additional premises from Tegut. Antitrust chief Andreas Mundt said the authority was able to swiftly clear t...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok on Thursday urged the EU’s highest court to uphold judgments annulling decisions setting their Digital Services Act supervisory fees, with Meta’s lawyer warning that the European Commi...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Genta Nakanishi
Japanese retailer Ryohin Keikaku acknowledged shortcomings in the implementation of its information security and customer-data management policies at a Thursday press conference, saying it had reported a cyberattack affect...(read more)
A Shanghai court has sentenced a man for using artificial intelligence to bypass an AI platform’s security controls and resell its image- and video-generation services, highlighting the criminal risks of profiting from una...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
A single copyright license can cover both sharing users’ uploads and storing the necessary copies on platforms’ servers, EU judges have ruled. The decision clarifies the rules for online platforms and music collecting soci...(read more)
China has sped up court proceedings and clarified rules for resolving drug-patent disputes before generic medicines reach the market, giving drugmakers clearer guidance on protecting innovation and pursuing market entry.
November 12, 2026 | Freny Patel
Global Weather Productions and five content creators were barred from suing TV Today in California after the Delhi High Court provisionally found that YouTube’s jurisdiction clause was insufficient grounds for US copyright...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former HealthBeacon employee Alan Dalton has been fined €67,580 by the Irish Central Bank for insider trading after he twice wrongly sold shares in the medical devices company. The regulator said that Dalton ...(read more)
WhatsApp and other intermediaries must submit scam-prevention plans to India’s Supreme Court, which also ordered compensation rules for cyberfraud losses caused by financial institutions’ failures to exercise proper due di...(read more)
November 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a legal alert reminding businesses operating in California that it remains illegal to pay bribes or prohibited gratuities to federal officials to obtain or retain ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan
Indonesia's financial regulators are strengthening cybersecurity defenses amid heightened cyber threats to banks and other financial institutions. The Financial Services Authority and Bank Indonesia have activated cyber in...(read more)
Companies offering AI shopping agents would have to let consumers set purchasing limits and choose which transactions require approval under the European Commission’s proposed Digital Fairness Act. The proposal seeks to pr...(read more)
Europe’s computer games industry has called for an urgent reassessment of the Digital Fairness Act, proposed on Wednesday, warning that it could undermine competitiveness, create legal uncertainty and reduce players’ choic...(read more)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China has expressed serious concerns to Germany and Portugal over reported restrictions on Chinese equipment in their 5G networks, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong said at a press conference on Thu...(read more)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China has fully implemented the consensus reached during eight rounds of economic and trade talks with the US since May 2025, Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong said at a press briefing on Th...(read more)
MLex Summary: EU imports of copper tubes from Mexico, Uzbekistan, China and Vietnam face provisional EU anti-dumping duties of up to 51.5 percent, effective Thursday, after an investigation found that low-priced imports ha...(read more)
MLex Summary: Moves by a private citizen to seek damages from the European Commission for intervening in a Latvian court case about the rescue of Parex banka should fail, according to a legal opinion for the EU's highest c...(read more)
November 11, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)
November 10, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Cases before the EU's highest court may proceed more quickly, even when they raise a new legal question, after a change in approach that means no advisory opinion is needed if the answer is clear. Maciej Szpunar, first Adv...(read more)
MLex Summary: UK-based energy company Aquind's challenge to the EU energy regulator's refusal to grant an exemption from the bloc's electricity market rules for its planned UK-France interconnector should be partly rejecte...(read more)
MLex Summary: Poland's legal challenges to seven key pieces of the EU's climate legislation were rejected by the bloc's top court on Thursday, upholding major elements of its Fit for 55 package. The cases concerned carbon ...(read more)
November 11, 2026
MLex Summary: The EU supports a global pledge to increase electricity's share of final energy consumption to 35 percent by 2035, the so-called 35-by-35 Global Electrification Pledge, European Commission President Ursula vo...(read more)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been fined £450,000 ($597,015) by the UK's communications regulator for providing inaccurate information about its WhatsApp Business service. Ofcom said in a statement Thursday that the com...(read more)
MLex Summary: A dispute between T‑2 and Telekom Slovenije over network access has seen the EU’s top court rule that telecoms operators cannot halt regulatory proceedings simply by taking the same dispute to court. T‑2 had ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Coupang’s appeal against a 162.8 billion ($122 million today) antitrust fine by South Korea’s competition regulator is set for closing arguments on Dec. 17, despite the company’s request for more time to rebut evidence dra...(read more)