MLex Summary: Meta Platforms in a Thursday blog post argues the Australian government's proposed A$250 million ($180 million) annual News Bargaining Incentive is a discriminatory, poorly designed tax on a smal... (more story)

MLex Summary: New Zealand's competition watchdog has proposed new interchange fee caps for commercial credit cards, building on regulations introduced in 2022, in an attempt to lower barriers to alternative pa... (more story)

Daniel Guarnera, director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, pointed to merger policy and a reluctance to provide guidance such as the competitor collaboration guidelines as key differ... (more story)

The European Commission is resisting calls to reopen the EU's IP enforcement law, despite concerns over inconsistent proportionality in patent injunction cases. Lawmakers are preparing a possible report, while... (more story)

The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court has said that it has jurisdiction to rule on the alleged infringement of UK patents. In a dispute between Kodak and Fujifilm, the EU’s highest patent court cited... (more story)

Party coordinators have approved a push by the European Parliament to examine whether the EU’s 20-year-old IP enforcement rulebook needs updating, as debate intensifies over patent injunctions and proportionality. 

The US International Trade Commission on Wednesday questioned the extent of price as a factor in marketplace competition, pushing the sole remaining domestic producer of lattice boom crawler cranes to come up ... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department’s specificity redetermination for the South Korean government’s electricity subsidy to Hyundai Steel Co., in a ruling issued Wednesday.

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department in a final determination said Japan is dumping lattice boom crawler cranes. Commerce assigned a 16.18 percent dumping rate to all Japanese producers, with separate rate... (more story)

California’s antitrust chief said states will continue to decide on a “case-by-case basis” whether to seek jury trials in antitrust cases, but noted that juries currently appear receptive to competition claims.

Artificial intelligence offers a chance to test whether the EU’s rulebook for Big Tech can prevent the sector from becoming dominated by a handful of companies, an EU regulator's official said. Lucia Bonova de... (more story)

MLex Summary: Minnesota’s attorney general moved to dismiss a US complaint filed by NetChoice over a law that would force websites to display “warning” messages. The brief argued that the law regulates commerc... (more story)