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Intellectual Property
March 21, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America

Data Privacy and Security
March 21, 2025 | Hoa Dinh
Asia

Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 21, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Westfälisches Textilwerk Adolf Ahlers — the largest licensee of French fashion house Pierre Cardin — has filed an appeal at the EU General Court to contest the European Commission's decision to f... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
US tech companies are ramping up pressure on South Korea over what they describe as its adverse regulatory environment, blatantly accusing the country’s antitrust regulator and lawmakers of unfairly targeting... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
A subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Pharmaceuticals and one of its business executives were fined by Shanghai's market regulator for colluding with two rivals in price-fixing and market division agreemen... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 24, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
An Italian government law decree on artificial intelligence was adopted by lawmakers in the Senate last week with an amendment that would oblige all AI systems meant to be used in the public domain to be based... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Personal-information handlers using facial-recognition technology to process information in China are preparing for new regulations that will govern the security management of the technology, as authorities se... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s privacy regulator will prepare a guidebook on adopting and utilizing generative AI to help small and medium-sized enterprises and startup companies, its chief said today. Ko Hak-soo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 21, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
US antitrust agencies have been filing fewer merger lawsuits in Washington, DC, which has increased trial expenses and tasked less-experienced courts with some of the federal government’s biggest, most sophist... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority has published its clearance of SES' proposed acquisition of Intelsat in the country's official journal. The agency approved the deal without conditions.
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Steel and Nippon Steel have continued to pursue their proposed transaction by lobbying the Trump administration and filing lawsuits against United Steelworkers, according to a statement from U... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Specific rules concerning the joint examination teams for oversight activities under the Digital Operational Resilience Act were today published in the EU's Official Journal. The rules provide de... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society met with US industry groups to discuss an upcoming royal decree on cybercrime prevention and suppression. The meeting with the US-Asean Business... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
The Australian privacy watchdog’s newly established unit, designed to manage the transition to the government’s recent legislative changes to the Privacy Act, will also oversee the implementation of the countr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 24, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The UPC Brussels Local Division rejected Barco’s request for a preliminary injunction against Yealink, ruling that Barco failed to demonstrate the required urgency. The court confirmed its competence over the ... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
French biopharma company Cellectis has been granted permission by an Indian court to amend its patent specification for its T-cell immunotherapy technology, in a ruling that marks a significant development in ... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
In a victory for Japan’s telecom giant NTT Docomo, the country’s Intellectual Property High Court has ruled against an IT development firm’s claims of infringement, finding the contested patent invalid due to ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 24, 2025 | Phoebe Seers and Martin Coyle
Europe
Former trader Tom Hayes, convicted of rigging the benchmark Libor interest rate a decade ago, sees his long fight to clear his name arrive at the UK’s highest court tomorrow. The former UBS and Citibank trader... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The removal of Tornado Cash from the US sanctions list follows a US appellate court decision last year that had limited the reach of the measures targeting the cryptocurrency-transaction anonymizing service. T... (more story)
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department has removed sanctions on Tornado Cash, citing a review of the legal and policy issues raised by their use against financial and commercial activity occurring within evo... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a consultation on its approach for the application of the bloc's framework on market risk prudential requirements for banks — the fundamental review of the tr... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s seven largest and “most systemic” banks today saw the launch of the Bank Capital Stress Test by the Bank of England. The test involves a hypothetical stress scenario to assess a bank’s r... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU crypto sector today saw the publication of detailed rules under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation in the bloc's official bulletin. The rules cover issues such as stress testing progr... (more story)
Trade View More
March 24, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič will arrive in Washington today for talks on a solution that would allow the EU and the US to avoid a trade war, the European Commission has said. Negotiations will restart after ... (more story)
March 24, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The EU’s customs overhaul is facing further delays, with final negotiations unlikely to begin before late 2025 as EU capitals continue to debate governance, technical procedures, and e-commerce rules. Nearly t... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of glyoxylic acid from China will be subject to provisional dumping duties of up to 280.3 percent at EU borders, the European Commission said in a formal notice published today. The measu... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation granted by the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg to Deutsche Bahn's unit DB Regio — for the provision of regional passenger train services between 2002 and 2012 — is in line wi... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania’s 200 million-euro recapitalization of CEC, a state-owned bank, is not state aid, the European Commission said today. The regulator said the state support would yield returns in line with... (more story)
March 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Sectors in Germany which are subject to the EU Emission Trading Scheme such as chemistry, glass or cement, will be eligible for national support, under a 5-billion-euro program that won European ... (more story)
Energy View More
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The year 2024 was ''extraordinary'' both in terms of new cases filed to the EU's Court of Justice and in the number of cases completed by the institution as a whole, the court said when publishin... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Energy Storage Inventory is the EU's new interactive tool that offers real-time data on sustainable energy storage, the European Commission has said. The platform shows all forms of ... (more story)
March 20, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that invoked emergency powers granted through the Defense Production Act to boost production of critical minerals, a key national security issue for the White House.
Technology View More
March 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Department of Commerce is likely going to maintain its central role in tech policy — creating standards and entering into agreements — with a sharpened focus on national security under President Donald ... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is "no specific regulation" for Third Party Litigation Funding in most EU countries, according to a study commissioned by the EU Commission and published today. The document tries to give a... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency has launched an investigation into the ongoing US operations of China-aligned businesses whose equipment or se... (more story)