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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Data Privacy and Security

January 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Chris May

North America

Texas to seek state Supreme Court review of Google's location data win

Antitrust

January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America, North America

Apple, Brazil CADE clash over global precedents for App Store probe
Synopsys logo is displayed on smartphone. Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company.

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

South Korean review of Synopsys-Ansys nears conclusion, remedies expected

Antitrust View More

Australian competition watchdog CEO Scott Gregson set to leave

January 15, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The chief executive officer of Australia's competition regulator is set to depart and join the financial regulator in a senior leadership position. In an announcement today, the Australian Compet... (more story)

Yunfu MingLiang fined for gun-jumping in China

January 15, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Yunfu MingLiang Street Lamp Management, a public facilities company in China's Guangdong Province, was fined 1.75 million yuan ($239,000) for gun-jumping on a merger. According to the penalty dec... (more story)

US DOJ asks to make oral argument in Epic Games, Google app store case appeal

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to allot it five minutes Feb. 3 when Circuit Judges will hear arguments in Google's appeal against an injunction in an app... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Antitrust enforcement will be ‘priority’ for US DOJ attorney general nominee Bondi

January 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Pamela Bondi today affirmed her commitment to continue working on big-ticket monopolization lawsuits brought by federal enforcers under Biden and pledged that antitrust law enforcement will be a “priority” if ... (more story)

Progenics' AI-based cancer diagnostic patents survive US eligibility challenge

January 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A Massachusetts federal judge yesterday refused to dismiss allegations MIM Software infringes four Progenics Pharmaceuticals patents which claim, among other things, a neural network-based method for determini... (more story)

Nvidia says Xockets' dismissal argument 'underscores' flaws in US antitrust claims

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Nvidia told a US judge Xockets’ opposition to dismissal merely “underscores the flaws in its antitrust claims” and its claims should be dismissed with prejudice. Xockets fails to account for alle... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

EU outbound investment monitoring needed for economic security, Šefčovič says

January 15, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe

EU businesses' outbound investments across three strategic sectors should be monitored by member states to identify risks to the EU’s economic security with a view to tackling any that are found, the European ... (more story)

Roquette files acquisition of IFF Pharma Solutions for EU review

January 15, 2025 | Natalie McNelis

Europe

French company Roquette has requested EU approval to acquire International Flavors & Fragrances subsidiary IFF Pharma Solutions. The commission has set a Feb. 18 deadline to decide on the deal.

Nvidia goes to court over EU regulator's move to review Run:ai deal

January 15, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Natalie McNelis

Europe

Nvidia has filed an EU court challenge over the European Commission review of its takeover of Israeli start up Run:ai, MLex has learned. The deal came under EU scrutiny via a referral from Italy, where the nat... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Data localization, child protection, consent fuel India's draft data-rules debate

January 15, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

Data localization, consent mechanisms and potential impact on children's data were the key concerns raised and debated at the first consultation session on India's draft rules on data protection. Representativ... (more story)

'Day of reckoning': Daniel’s Law spawns new battleground for privacy rights in US

January 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

A New Jersey law meant to protect the personal information of public officials and their family members is being weaponized against a range of industries. With the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy la... (more story)

Australian regulator appoints key official to oversee privacy-law changes

January 15, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The Australian privacy watchdog has announced the appointment of a key official who will lead the taskforce responsible for implementing privacy law changes. In a social media post today, Austral... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Pandabuy a passive facilitator, not a seller, US judge rules in infringement case

January 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

A preliminary injunction against the Hong Kong retail site Pandabuy was dissolved yesterday, after US District Judge Jessica Clarke of the Southern District of New York determined the site is not likely respon... (more story)

USPTO support staff reach collective bargaining agreement with office

January 15, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

The US Patent and Trademark Office reached a new collective bargaining agreement with National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 243, the office announced today, securing a continued labor agreement for the USP... (more story)

Alpinestars gets extension from UPC for defense in Dainese patent infringement case

January 15, 2025

Europe

Motorsport company Alpinestars is granted an extension until Feb. 27 by the Unified Patent Court for filing its Statement of Defence and counterclaim for revocation in an infringement case brought by Dainese, ... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Block fined $80 million by US state regulators over Cash App compliance failures

January 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

Block was fined $80 million by regulators from 48 states over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program at Cash App, its digital money-transfer platform.

Star witness expected to testify in former Cognizant executives' US bribery trial

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Srimanikandan Ramamoorthy, the star cooperating witness in the bribery case of two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, is expected to travel to the US to testify at trial in Marc... (more story)

State banking regulators fine Cash App owner over compliance failures

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: In a coordinated enforcement action by 48 state financial regulators, Block, Inc. will pay an $80 million fine and undertake corrective action for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-mone... (more story)

Financial Services View More

BitMEX fined $100 million for violating US Bank Secrecy Act

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: HDR Global Trading, also known as BitMEX, was sentenced to a fine of $100 million for violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to establish, implement and maintain an adequate anti-mon... (more story)

BOE official says deregulation push recalls pre-2008 era

January 15, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

A Bank of England's executive director said that the calls for deregulation of the financial services sector reminded him of calls made to financial regulators prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. Nathan... (more story)

Shvidler appeals to UK Supreme Court to overturn ‘arbitrary’ sanctions designation

January 15, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle

Europe

Eugene Shvidler, a Russian-born businessman and friend of former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, today took his bid to overturn the UK sanctions designation imposed on him in the wake of the inva... (more story)

Trade View More

US trade court affirms 2021-2022 antidumping review results for Turkish rebar

January 15, 2025 | Laina S. Miller

Middle East, North America

The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Department of Commerce’s antidumping duty review for steel concrete reinforcing bar imported from Turkey between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022.

US CIT affirms Commerce’s removal of CEP offset from 2019-20 steel pipe review

January 15, 2025 | Laina S. Miller

Asia, North America

The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Department of Commerce’s remand redetermination for a 2019-20 antidumping review for circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Korea, which removed the cons... (more story)

US, Norway issue critical minerals supply chain transparency report

January 15, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: The US and Norway issued a report presenting the two countries’ shared understanding of the non-market policies and practices of certain third-party countries that may distort critical mineral markets.

State Aid View More

Ryanair’s appeals of re-approved Italian Covid aid published by EU court

January 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)

Italgas files 2i Rete Gas deal for EU foreign subsidy approval

January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Europe

Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.

Rectify FSR measures against Chinese companies, its industry lobby urges EU

January 09, 2025

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)

Energy View More

Relax EU’s sanctions against Syria, six member states suggest

January 15, 2025 | Jean Comte and Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

Six EU member states — Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Denmark — have suggested lifting some of the sanctions that the bloc has imposed on Syria since 2011, according to a joint written pr... (more story)

EU carmakers see center-left consider linking public funds to job guarantees

January 15, 2025 | Stefano Porciello

Europe

EU carmakers could see center-left lawmakers in the European Parliament defend the 2035 “combustion engine ban” and call for job guarantees and other social conditionalities to be attached to public funds, an ... (more story)

France's antitrust watchdog imposed over EUR1.4 billion in fines in 2024

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The French competition authority levied over 1.4 billion euros in fines last year, making 2024 the second-highest year in terms of penalties imposed. The office assessed a record number of 295 me... (more story)

Technology View More

Texas age verification law raises US Supreme Court concerns on privacy, free speech

January 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Maddie Hughes

North America

The US Supreme Court examined longstanding tensions between free speech, privacy and evolving technology today in weighing whether Texas' law requiring age verification for adult websites should be reviewed un... (more story)

Telecom giants to see single EU sector regulation this year, official says

January 15, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Júlia Tar

Europe

Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone should see a single EU regulation on telecom rules this year as the EU Electronic Communications Code is reviewed and reforms proposed to boost the sector's competitivenes... (more story)

How Meta, X, other platforms handle disinformation under UK lawmakers' inquiry

January 15, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Threats to democracy from online disinformation will be examined by UK lawmakers as part of a parliamentary inquiry confirmed today. The inquiry, led by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House... (more story)