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)

The US Court of International Trade has sided with the Commerce Department in upholding Commerce's negative determination in its countervailing duty investigation of glass wine bottles.

EU governments, industry and campaign groups broadly back the European Commission’s planned Critical Raw Materials Centre, while differing over how far its powers should extend. Responses to a public consultat... (more story)

The EU’s push to tackle Chinese overcapacity will require a definition tight enough to capture state-backed structural oversupply, without encompassing ordinary export success. As Brussels weighs new or broade... (more story)

The EU's plan for a €30 billion tender to build AI gigafactories — large-scale computing facilities designed to provide the huge processing power to train and deploy advanced AI models — amid a severe heatwave... (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)