Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a reply in support of a motion for reconsideration of an injunction against the state’s ban on algorithmic rent-setting tools in a case brought by Re... (more story)

MLex Summary: McDonald's may be using algorithmic pricing tools to facilitate collusion between franchisees and squeeze customers with higher prices, US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Becca Balint... (more story)

The level of fines meted out by the UK antitrust regulator since it gained direct consumer enforcement powers is “extremely small,” the chair of a parliamentary committee said. Liam Byrne, chair of the cross-p... (more story)

A renewed EU effort to regulate standard-essential patent licensing risks splintering global markets and harming smaller innovators and patent pool administrators, Sisvel's executive head of government affairs... (more story)

The Unified Patent Court is developing rules on when intermediaries can face injunctions for helping others bring allegedly infringing products to market. UPC Court of Appeal President Klaus Grabinski said que... (more story)

The recent denial of Meishan CRRC Fastening System Co’s petition for inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board expands upon how the US Patent and Trademark Office will apply its new standard... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted in a final determination that a domestic industry is injured by imports of chromium trioxide from India and Turkey. Since the Department of... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade dismissed as moot a lawsuit from a solar energy trade group against the International Trade Commission's determination that Thai and Cambodian solar cell imports did not mat... (more story)

MLex Summary: A coalition of US producers filed a request with the Commerce Department to investigate if Chinese exporters are moving production to Malaysia to circumvent antidumping duties on paper file folde... (more story)

Companies operating online platforms could be subject to additional German transparency requirements to protect diversity of opinion, depending on how the EU Court of Justice interprets the Digital Services Ac... (more story)

A broad range of tech companies are set to face a reform of the EU's consumer-enforcement structure, a senior European Commission official confirmed on Tuesday. The reform would allow the commission to take on... (more story)

UK tech businesses facing regulatory barriers to growth should raise them with the government early, science, innovation and investment minister Chris McDonald has said. The government should become a “better ... (more story)