MLex Summary: Retailers in the UK that employ misleading discounts and subscription traps in their practices face a clampdown in 2027 under new rules imposed by the government, the office of Prime Minister And... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Turkish competition authority is analyzing the relationship between patent protection, intellectual property and competition law as part of its ongoing inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector.... (more story)

MLex Summary: Konica Minolta, General Systems and General Systems & Distribution are under investigation by Romania’s antitrust enforcer, to see if they colluded in the markets for the sale of electronic secur... (more story)

Japan’s IP High Court has barred a publisher from continuing to reproduce and distribute 14 medical books after finding that an informal publishing arrangement could be terminated by the author at any time.

China has overhauled its patent priority-examination regime for the first time in nine years, shifting accelerated review toward emerging and future industries while imposing tighter procedural and integrity requirements.

A provision in Netlist's settlement with Samsung offers a glimpse at how patent owners might structure disputes in the emerging AI-memory licensing market, by pairing a commercial alliance with a cooperation a... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce has preliminarily found that carya illinoensis, or pecans, imported from Mexico and the US were dumped into China, causing material injury to the domestic pecan indus... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU and the United Arab Emirates made progress on customs cooperation and sanitary and phytosanitary measures during their seventh round of free trade negotiations, according to a European Com... (more story)

MLex Summary: China is seeking deeper BRICS cooperation on trade and investment, the digital economy, services trade, green minerals, artificial intelligence and special economic zones as it prepares to chair ... (more story)

Two separate court rulings, one by a federal judge in California and one by a state court judge in New Mexico, could mean trouble ahead for the "attention economy." The federal judge found recommendation algor... (more story)

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said yesterday’s judgment against Meta Platforms for being a "public nuisance" is just the start of change to the industry, and his office is planning to push for legisl... (more story)

Meta has appealed two interim injunctions from the French competition authority ordering the tech company to negotiate "in good faith" with press publishers over remuneration for using their members' content. ... (more story)