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Intellectual Property
April 20, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Trade
April 17, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 17, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Barclays, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and other banks failed to convince the US Supreme Court to review an antitrust case accusing them of illegally conspiring to inflate the interest rates for a typ... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an unredacted version of a motion for a preliminary injunction in the state's existing lawsuit against Amazon over alleged price fixing. In a filing in... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Tyson Foods agreed to pay $82.5 million to settle with direct purchasers over US price-fixing allegations related to beef. The deal is subject to approval by a federal judge.
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU governments and lawmakers have agreed on some of the less controversial aspects of a legislative package to amend the EU's AI law, including the provisions on AI literacy, the legal basis for ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU governments are being asked for feedback on compromise proposals, to weigh in on different options and to indicate their flexibility on five key unresolved issues in AI Act amendments, ahead of a final deal... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A senior Chinese legislative official has offered a fresh glimpse into Beijing’s evolving approach to legislation on artificial intelligence, signaling new priorities while maintaining continuity with earlier ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 20, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Merging companies will see the EU pay close attention to the impact of their deals on the innovation race as well as the risk of them accessing sensitive data on rivals, according to new guidelines under consi... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Corporate deals that drive technological progress, boost R&D and secure access to critical inputs may get an easier path to EU approval, according to draft guidelines seen by MLex. The European Commission’s ne... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Republican Senator Mike Lee and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the chief executives of United Airlines and American Airlines on reports indicating the companies are consi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs sought to intervene in a privacy case against Google too late, according to a US appeals court. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed an order that denied leave to int... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge in the Western District of Arkansas preliminarily enjoined the Arkansas Social Media Safety Act from going into effect. Ruling in favor of the tech trade association NetChoice ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Irish Data Protection Authority can review whether AI model providers are correctly applying a “balancing test” on whether their use of legitimate interests as a legal basis for training models is in line ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 20, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Abbott Diabetes Care has secured a UPC injunction against Sinocare’s GlucoMen iCan, with appeal judges overturning a refusal and finding indirect infringement and likely validity. Judges cited urgency, warning... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s justice ministry is moving to clarify when generative artificial intelligence users may face civil liability for copying a person’s voice or likeness without consent, setting up an expert panel that co... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Chicago Tribune and New York Times have failed in their respective copyright suits to allege infringing outputs for "nearly every asserted copyright," artificial intelligence answer engine Pe... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Alain Tzvi Bibliowicz Mitrani, a Florida-based businessman, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison for leading an organization that laundered at least $300 million in drug and criminal proceeds.
April 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Asia, Europe
A criminal investigation into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation by UK prosecutors led to it being had “over a barrel” by lenders, lawyers for the Kazakh miner have said as it opened a $290 million claim a... (more story)
April 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced that he's joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scale back its plans to severely reduce... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 20, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Ralf Seekatz, an EU lawmaker from the center-right European People’s Party, faces a tight deadline to secure support from several political groups for a revamped securitization framework ahead of a May 5 vote.... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s revised bank crisis framework was published Monday in the bloc’s Official Journal, setting out reforms to strengthen deposit protection and bank resolution rules. Known as the Crisis Man... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The Maltese government has proposed renewing Eugène Buttigieg's appointment to the EU's General Court for another term, according to documents seen by MLex. National representatives are set to make an official... (more story)
Trade View More
April 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The Trump administration is pushing a message of “trade over aid” in a new strategy aimed at undermining financial aid for countries in favor of an effort to promote more business ties, creating uncertainty on... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade partly remanded the Commerce Department’s latest revision to a 2023 review of an antisubsidy order on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea, fi... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe, Oceania
The French government won't oppose the EU-Australia trade agreement despite voting against the EU-Mercosur deal last year over agricultural concerns, MLex understands. Expectations were that France, with an ac... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hrvatska Banka za Obnovu i Razvitak, a Croatian development bank, may receive a capital injection worth €411 million, the European Commission said on Monday, clearing the support under EU state a... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's plan to grant €600 million and other benefits to state-owned Nuclearelectrica National Company, to refurbish the Cernavoda 1 nuclear reactor, has drawn an in-depth EU state aid probe.
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Compensation by the Dutch government to coal plant operators RWE Eemshaven Holding and Uniper Benelux for profit losses caused by a cap on CO2 emissions doesn't amount to state aid, the European ... (more story)
Energy View More
April 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia's incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins has warned of a rise in climate-related legal actions against corporations stemming from an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice las... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: A legal opinion authored by Australia’s incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins and published Monday says an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change is likely to influen... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (more story)
Technology View More
April 20, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Google is taking the European Commission to court over how users are counted for its Google Shopping service under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, in a move that could clarify a key methodology under the bloc... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple retains broad discretion over interoperability, forcing developers into costly, slow and uncertain access processes, according to a report by Free Software Foundation Europe. Drawing on dev... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology will meet with Meta Platforms to demand concrete, time-bound actions against online disinformation, warning stronger regul... (more story)