China’s top court has highlighted the need for lower courts to identify potential antitrust violations when handling ordinary commercial disputes, pointing to a vehicle-testing cartel uncovered after one parti... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency panel proposed Wednesday to prohibit businesses from obstructing consumers from canceling subscription services, amid growing consumer complaints about such ser... (more story)

MLex Summary: Kochi Broadcasting, a local broadcaster based in Kochi Prefecture in western Japan, received administrative guidance from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Wednesday foll... (more story)

A former employee whose patents were among intellectual property transferred within Japanese electronics group Murata for 4.3 billion yen ($28 million) was not entitled to a share of that value, a Tokyo court has ruled.

India's draft pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent guidelines incorporate recent court rulings, giving life-sciences companies clearer guidance on patentability, evidentiary requirements, diagnostic inventi... (more story)

The EU is looking to patents and other intellectual property assets to become a bigger source of financing for European companies, with its European Innovation Act aiming to unlock €10.2 billion a year while t... (more story)

Canadian company Davie may be distorting a public tender for icebreakers because of subsidies from its home government, Rauma Marine Constructions has claimed. The Finnish company filed a complaint with the Eu... (more story)

The US pizza box industry is under imminent threat of being overtaken by unfairly traded imports from China, Malaysia and Turkey if duty orders aren't put into place, petitioners told the US government.

A coalition of US solar cell producers told the International Trade Commission that Section 232 duties protecting national security and previous antidumping and antisubsidy cases are not enough to maintain a v... (more story)

MLex Summary: A coalition of 19 civil society groups, businesses and academics, including Noyb, European Digital Rights and BEUC, called on EU legislators to retain a Digital Omnibus measure requiring companie... (more story)

MLex Summary: Ireland’s media regulator Coimisiún na Meán said 69 percent of children surveyed favored online-safety education over a social-media ban, as did 49 percent of parents and caregivers. Sixty-seven ... (more story)

Tech platforms face active monitoring over their efforts to stop the spread of illegal intimate images — including AI-generated deepfakes — after the UK regulator announced a new enforcement program. Ofcom sai... (more story)