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Energy, Trade
April 30, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Eliana Hubacker
Europe, North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
April 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Financial Crime
April 29, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
April 30, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Agri Stats’s involvement in government litigation accusing Wayne-Sanderson Farms and George’s of violating an information-exchange settlement with the US Department of Justice “is necessary to protect its inte... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple is "in willful violation" of a 2021 injunction over its anti-steering rules, a California federal judge said today. "Apple, despite knowing its obligations thereunder, thwarted the Injuncti... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Claude Marx
North America
The US House Judiciary Committee today withdrew a bill that would have eliminated the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and transferred and consolidated the agency’s antitrust powers in the Depa... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 30, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A search conducted by FBI agents during the investigation of a former Google AI engineer over allegations of trade secret theft could be illegal because the agents failed to inform the target of his Miranda ri... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum — the UK’s coordination mechanism for its four key digital regulators — will focus on the potential ecosystem for agentic AI, preparing for the implementa... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Colorado Senate has passed legislation to protect victims of intimate deepfakes, or sexually explicit artificial intelligence-generated material, especially those that involve children. SB25-... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 30, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The review by the Tribunal of the Brazilian competition authority of a codeshare agreement between airlines Azul Linhas Aereas and Gol Linhas Aereas for a potential gun-jumping violation will examine the treat... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Spirit AeroSystems workers and union officials met with UK lawmakers today to urge the government to intervene in the proposed partial divestment of assets. Airbus this week agreed to take certain money-losing... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
EU merger enforcers will keep a close eye on governments intervening in mergers on public-interest grounds — such as security or media plurality — to ensure they don’t fragment Europe’s economy at a time when ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 30, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton today peppered the US Department of Justice with questions about why President Donald Trump fired the Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board an... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Companies like Facebook are the primary beneficiaries of targeted advertising, and the benefits to the wider US economy, small businesses and individuals are “marginal,” according to internal Meta Platforms su... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Justice Department announced today it has declined to prosecute Universities Space Research Association after the software nonprofit company self-disclosed wrongdoing committed by a former employee and ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 30, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Patent infringement litigation against PayPal Holdings was correctly resolved at the claim construction stage, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled today, leaving intact a Texas federal judge’... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A Texas federal judge didn't err in analyzing terms in four Fintiv patents as means-plus-function terms nor in declaring the patents invalid as indefinite, the US Court of Appeals for the Federa... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Encoding claims in three of five patents asserted against The Walt Disney Company, Hulu, ESPN and others are nonessential to the H.264 and H.265 video decoding standards and as such, cannot form ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced that it has declined the prosecution of Universities Space Research Association (USRA) after it self-disclosed to the agency criminal violations of US export c... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Two lawsuits arguing that a US rule requiring real estate professionals to file reports about certain property deals is unconstitutional appear to follow a legal strategy recently employed against an anti-mone... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A British businessman wanted in South Africa on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges has fended off his extradition there. High Court judges said today that South African authorities had inadvertentl... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 30, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Social media platforms must do more to take down illegal content online, a UK financial watchdog official said today. Lucy Castledine singled out Meta as particularly slow to respond to requests to remove acco... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK banks and insurers received updated climate-risk guidance from the Bank of England's supervisory arm today, just as the UK government itself was being dressed down for being unprepared to face climate chang... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU member states decided today that they would not amend a recent proposal from the European Commission to maintain the current rules on liquidity requirements for short-term securities financing transactions.... (more story)
Trade View More
April 30, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department announced a reconstruction investment fund with Ukraine, calling it an economic partnership for mutual investments. Treasury and the US International Development Financ... (more story)
April 30, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Two glycine manufacturers have contested an antidumping duty determination by the Commerce Department in the US Court of International Trade. In their filing, Kumar Industries and Bajaj Healthcar... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously to terminate the antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into epoxy resins imported from China and India.
State Aid View More
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s internal market and industry arm, DG Grow, is undergoing a restructuring to align with the EU’s new competitiveness agenda. Changes will be effective from tomorrow, May ... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Jean Comte
Asia, Europe
The European Commission team scrutinizing foreign subsidies in public procurement will get a dedicated unit from tomorrow, as part of a reshuffle of the Directorate-General for single market. The new structure... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: German flag carrier Deutsche Lufthansa today lost a legal challenge against EU clearance in 2017 for German state aid worth up to 25.3 million euros in favor of loss-making regional airport Frank... (more story)
Energy View More
April 30, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
EU solar-panel makers and the bloc's power grid need regulatory intervention to reduce its dangerous exposure to Chinese-manufactured photovoltaic inverters, devices needed to connect panels to the electricity... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states are set to ask the European Commission to assess "which parts of the existing energy acquis may be subject to simplification under the Omnibus program," an EU initiative aimed at... (more story)
April 30, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Negotiations to link the EU and UK emission trading systems should start as soon as possible, according to a letter signed by more than fifty European industrial organizations. Matching the two s... (more story)
Technology View More
April 30, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
At a hearing in the US Federal Trade Commission’s “dark patterns” case against Amazon, the two sides clashed over what the FTC said was a massive, last-minute document dump by the tech giant. The agency now pl... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman
Europe, North America
Microsoft is pushing the EU and US to conclude talks on accessing electronic evidence in criminal investigations. The company's President Brad Smith told journalists today that negotiators should conclude talk... (more story)
April 30, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
OpenAI's landmark chatbot, ChatGPT, is being considered by the European Commission for designation as a systemic platform under the EU Digital Services Act due to its web searching functionality, MLex has lear... (more story)