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US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador suggested that there could have been a way to issue nationwide rulemaking on noncompetes to “thread the needle” in “an intelligent way,” and that his predecessors in t... (more story)

Mastercard and Visa’s successful bid for permission to challenge a UK ruling that their card fees violate competition rules offers them a route to try to push back down heightened risk from years of card-fee l... (more story)

MLex Summary: Anna M. Gomez, a commissioner on the US Federal Communications Commission, said the merger of local TV giants Nexstar and Tegna “was approved behind closed doors with no open process, no full Com... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office has found itself in the middle of a political conflict after Director John Squires made the unprecedented decision to file trademark applications for the “Board of Peace” in ... (more story)

Critical works, consisting of a version of a work in the public domain accompanied by original commentary, fall under copyright protection, the EU’s highest court has said. But the decision could undermine exi... (more story)

AI developers and the creative industry alike face continued uncertainty following a keenly awaited UK government report this week on how copyright protections are handled in AI model training. The government ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Bahrain's Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill B.S.C. filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade challenging the Commerce Department's February review of an antidumping order on common alloy a... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indian producer Atlas Stainless Corporate Private Limited filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's February review of an antidumping order on st... (more story)

MLex Summary: Hyundai Steel Company filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade contesting a February Commerce Department review of an antisubsidy order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea.

MLex Summary: New UK rules should open up to 10 GHz of additional spectrum for satellite gateway stations, mainly in rural areas, telecom regulator Ofcom said in a statement, adding that it would consult on ex... (more story)

Upcoming reforms to the EU’s antitrust framework needs to include provision for national watchdogs to mount joint cross-border investigations, senior Belgian Competition Authority official Damien Gerard told M... (more story)

MLex Summary: Children in the UK widely use multiple digital devices, social media and video platforms — often under parental supervision and subject to family rules — but they display mixed understanding of r... (more story)