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Technology
December 24, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Intellectual Property
December 24, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
December 23, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Antitrust View More
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan has updated its antitrust guidelines on price negotiations to encourage the appropriate pass-through of labor costs. The Cabinet Secretariat and the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Friday re... (more story)
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japanese antitrust agency has secured an increased budget and additional personnel to ensure fair transactions between large companies and their smaller suppliers, even though the overall bud... (more story)
December 25, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese supermarket chain Lopia has had its antitrust investigation closed after the Japanese watchdog approved its remedy package on Thursday. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said an investigat... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 26, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s early AI overhaul has succeeded in reviving momentum after some delay due to domestic politics, but his AI policy agenda now faces tougher regulator... (more story)
December 25, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
A prominent Chinese legal scholar has called for advancing legislation to promote the healthy development of artificial intelligence, rekindling debate over how Beijing should regulate the fast-growing technol... (more story)
December 25, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
In its latest post-hearing listing document filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group denied copyright-infringement allegations by major US movie studios related to... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 25, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Plans by major Japanese chemical companies to integrate parts of their plastics businesses are facing an in-depth antitrust review. The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Thursday said it has opened ... (more story)
December 25, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top merger-control regulator has fined two Zhejiang companies a combined 1.7 million yuan ($240,000) for gun-jumping, its fourth publicly disclosed unlawful merger case this year. For the first time si... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
US state attorneys general are emerging as increasingly assertive and independent actors in merger enforcement, reshaping the antitrust landscape amid a more politicized federal review environment. States are ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, or OJK, which oversees the country’s banking and financial services sector, has issued new regulation Number 32 of 2025 on so-called "buy now pay late... (more story)
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, along with the Cyberspace Administration, has issued a joint notice confirming revisions to the certification standards for outbound transfers ... (more story)
December 26, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japanese data privacy and security regulator will see a small budget increase in the fiscal year that starts in April, according to the budget plan approved by the Cabinet on Friday. The budg... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 25, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
Sony and Tencent settled their US video-game dispute, ending Sony Interactive Entertainment’s California lawsuit over Tencent’s Light of Motiram game through a stipulated dismissal with prejudice.
December 24, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe, North America
In 2025 the rising prominence of a then-fledgling Unified Patent Court may have taken top billing for practitioners, but in 2026 the spotlight is firmly affixed on the US Patent and Trademark Office. Myriad ch... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court issued rulings this week upholding and revoking patents, granting and denying injunctions, tightening rules on added matter and inspections, and clarifying language, confidentiality an... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 24, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A new UK roadmap for tackling corruption promises to tackle financial crime and dirty money flows, crack down on professional enablers, and speed up Serious Fraud Office investigations with AI. But only signs ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
On the February day that President Trump ordered a pause on enforcement of a key US anti-bribery law, companies previously targeted under that law whose stocks are publicly traded saw an average gain in market... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield led a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the complete defunding of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Th... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 24, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The vast majority of US banks would enjoy loosened regulatory oversight under a US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposal amending 2008 financial crisis rules. The proposal would raise the threshol... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued purported crypto asset trading platforms Morocoin Tech Corp., Berge Blockchain Technology Co. Ltd. and Cirkor Inc. and investment clubs AI Wealth In... (more story)
Trade View More
December 26, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China has lodged formal protests with Washington through the China–US economic and trade consultation mechanism over a planned US move to impose additional Section 301 tariffs on its semiconducto... (more story)
December 25, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China hopes the companies involved can reach a solution on TikTok’s operations in the US that complies with Chinese laws and regulations and reflects a balance of interests, Commerce Ministry spo... (more story)
December 25, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s export surge is helping Beijing stay on track for its 2025 growth target, offsetting weak domestic demand and a prolonged property downturn. But as trade tensions harden into structural constraints, po... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission moved to tighten oversight of plastic imports by introducing separate customs codes for virgin and recycled plastics and stepping up monitoring of EU and global markets, l... (more story)
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A new EU strategy for the Arctic is being prepared as the bloc moves to update its approach to the region’s climate, security and geopolitical challenges, with a call for public feedback now open... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has won approval from the European Commission for a €20 billion reform of its electricity capacity mechanism aimed at ensuring security of supply during winter peak periods. The program, w... (more story)
Technology View More
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Operational technology used in the UK’s critical infrastructure faces growing cyber risks due to aging systems, increased connectivity and a shortage of specialist skills, a government-commission... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The Japanese competition regulator is launching a new market survey on generative artificial intelligence companies to examine their role in the news-content distribution market. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Per... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Deere & Company told a US federal judge Tuesday that information requests by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's data security practices are too broad, calling the move a "fishing expedition."