Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, wants an Australian judge to issue relief orders that have "a global market" approach, allowing Australian developers to distribute apps elsewhere and for Apple to eliminate co... (more story)

Mastercard’s agreement with Coles was designed in part to protect transaction volumes and limit the appeal of routing debit payments through Eftpos, an Australian court heard on Wednesday in an antitrust trial... (more story)

South Korea's GC Pharmaceutical will get another chance to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that upheld a 2023 vaccine cartel fine, as the country's Constitutional Court takes up the case under its new constit... (more story)

China’s top court has clarified how to assess whether trademarks consisting of short phrases are distinctive and eligible for registration, in a retrial involving British perfume house Penhaligon’s.

India has announced a three-year fee waiver for intellectual property registrations related to sports to boost innovation, encourage filings and support manufacturing. The idea is to shift the sector toward IP... (more story)

Aligos Therapeutics’ recent China licensing deal for chronic hepatitis B therapies enables it to broaden clinical development, generate more data, and tap into the world’s largest market for these treatments.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a consultation on draft benchmarks clarifying how penalties under the Rare Earths Management Regulation will be applied, with a focus on tra... (more story)

The Office of the US Trade Representative’s hearing Tuesday into forced labor allegations from 60 countries brought support to tackle a lingering global issue but also sparked worry over whether tariffs are th... (more story)

MLex summary: The office of the US Trade Representative said it is seeking comments by May 15 on modernizing the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which will lapse at the end of the year.

MLex Summary: British telecom operator BT is being investigated for potentially failing to comply with legally binding requests for information from regulator Ofcom. The probe relates to requests issued in Dec... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been preliminarily found by the European Commission on Wednesday to have breached the Digital Services Act by failing to stop children under 13 from accessing Facebook and Inst... (more story)

Rambus is the subject of a criminal antitrust investigation by the US Department of Justice and has been responding to federal grand jury subpoena as part of the probe, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday.