Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Public Power Corporation, a Greek electricity provider, has received supplementary EU antitrust charges in an ongoing probe of the electricity market. The European Commission issued the new charge sheet, sayi...(read more)

Greek electricity provider Public Power Corporation is the target of further antitrust charges, after the European Commission told the company it may have harmed rivals through its pricing policy. The new charge sheet buil...(read more)

The legality of reselling pre-owned Windows and Office licenses could reach the UK’s highest court, following this week’s application by Microsoft for permission to appeal. The US software giant lost its copyright and juri...(read more)

A California state court judge has rejected Via Licensing Alliance’s attempt to use a transferred audio patent license to demand payment for HP Inc.’s earlier product sales, finding that the agreement excluded those obliga...(read more)

Germany and eight other EU governments are pressing the European Commission for a fresh patent-licensing proposal, warning that uncertainty threatens Europe’s competitiveness and economic security. Their joint call revives...(read more)

A former executive at Chinese specialty chemicals maker Shenzhen Capchem Technology has been convicted of criminal trade-secret infringement after disclosing proprietary chemical formulations to a competing business.

MLex Summary: US importer Freestyle World, Inc., filed a motion for all importers who paid now-illegal tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to be eligible for refunds through US Customs and Bo...(read more)

Europe could face gas storage shortages before the 2027-28 winter if stocks become too depleted this winter, the industry association that coordinates the region's gas supplies has warned. ENTSOG said on Friday that limite...(read more)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Commerce Department’s remand results following its July order in response to a lawsuit from the American Brass Rod Fair Trade Coalition after no parties s...(read more)

MLex Summary: Age checks under the proposed EU Kids Act should be necessary and proportionate, with lawmakers considering where safety by design could protect all users instead, the European Data Protection Supervisor has ...(read more)

More large tech firms should be obliged to share data and open up their systems along the entire stack of AI products and services to ensure market competition, a Nobel-prize winner for economics said. Philippe Aghion said...(read more)

MLex Summary: US House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden demanded the Trump administration retain all records relating to its project to allow — a...(read more)