A French business court has ordered Google to pay €2.4 million in damages to press publisher Rossel, ruling that it had abused its dominant position on the market for ad servers for publishers of websites betw... (more story)

MLex Summary: US concrete chemical purchasers' pursuit of documents provided to EU antitrust enforcers as part of global scrutiny into an alleged industry cartel could "unduly interfere" with ongoing proceedin... (more story)

The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, has ordered the agency's antitrust and consumer protection staff to scrutinize whether a 1995 FTC policy that settlement orders sunset only aft... (more story)

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld a refusal by the Japan Patent Office to register the shape of a baby fork as a 3D trademark, finding that consumers would see the design as functional rather tha... (more story)

A Chinese court has ruled that software interface design can be protected under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law even when it falls outside the scope of copyright and trade-dress protection.

MLex Summary: The Japan Fair Trade Commission and the Cabinet Office's Intellectual Property Strategy Promotion Secretariat issued guidelines on Monday for the film and anime industries, clarifying how antitru... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU-UK summit planned for July 22 will be postponed and a new date considered following UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation announcement earlier on Monday, European Council President ... (more story)

The US has launched a Section 301 trade investigation into Germany’s pricing practices for pharmaceuticals, a move that is likely to increase tensions with Europe amid unsteady trading relations.

MLex Summary: The EU’s new tariff-preference plan for developing countries has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal, setting rules for the Generalized Scheme of Preferences from Jan. 1, 2027. The regu... (more story)

A court ruling upholding the temporary ban on Telegram may redefine India's internet-blocking regime by expanding Section 69A of the Information Technology Act from content removal to platform-wide bans. This ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed Telegram's challenge to a temporary order by the Indian government blocking access to the messaging platform in India until June 22. In its ruling, the co... (more story)

AI developers, researchers and companies that share large datasets could gain greater legal certainty over the use of pseudonymized data under the latest revised plans for simplifying the EU's digital rules. C... (more story)