Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Hong Kong will criminalize bid rigging in building maintenance projects with penalties of up to 10 years' imprisonment, following an independent inquiry into an apartment fire that killed 168 people last Novem... (more story)

China's top court has applied antitrust safe-harbor rules to resale-price restrictions in pharmaceutical distribution agreements, while rejecting allegations that a drugmaker organized a hub-and-spoke cartel a... (more story)

Japanese commercial kitchen equipment maker Maruzen received a corrective recommendation Thursday from the country's antitrust watchdog for reducing payments to 385 subcontractors in violation of Japan's forme... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office exceeded its major trademark performance goals in fiscal year 2026, the office's trademark leaders said Wednesday. Pendency for a first office action fell to about four month... (more story)

In a Wednesday judgment memorializing his mid-October bench ruling, UK High Court Judge James Mellor rejected Dolby and Access Advance’s proposal to resolve preliminary patent licensing questions before addres... (more story)

An Oslo court temporarily barred Meta from introducing commercial terms that Norwegian media companies say would allow it to scrape their content for AI training. The order blocks the changes pending a final r... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU imports of acetylsalicylic acid from China will be registered by customs authorities at the bloc’s borders starting Friday, the European Commission said. The move follows an anti-dumping probe... (more story)

China on Thursday warned that it will take necessary measures to defend its interests after the US added three Chinese genomics companies — BGI Group, BGI Genomics and MGI Tech — to a forced-labor entity list.... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it was willing to work with the US to implement the consensus reached by the two countries’ leaders and further open its markets to fo... (more story)

Australia’s House of Representatives has approved amendments to the government’s digital duty-of-care bill that would ban AI chatbots from fostering emotional dependence among children and require social-media... (more story)

The Computer & Communications Industry Association has sued Alabama officials to block a new app store law set to take effect in January, arguing it unconstitutionally restricts access to protected speech.

MLex Summary: The Computer & Communications Industry Association sued Alabama officials to block HB 161, arguing the law unconstitutionally requires age verification and parental consent for nearly all mobile ... (more story)