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Data Privacy and Security
December 23, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Intellectual Property
December 23, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Artificial Intelligence
December 22, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
December 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese automotive electronic-component maker Toyodenso received a corrective recommendation on Wednesday for violating the Subcontract Act. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said it found that th... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms risks distorting competition on the market for AI chatbots in Italy and has received an interim order to suspend a policy that would exclude rival services. The Italian competition... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Anna Ferrari, Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Meta Platform's move to exclude AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been suspended by the Italian Competition Authority in Italy pending a full anti-trust probe. The Italian regulator said that a policy set to come ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 24, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The Japanese competition regulator is launching a new market survey on generative artificial intelligence companies to examine their role in the news-content distribution market. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Per... (more story)
December 24, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea said it will finalize the enforcement decree for its landmark AI Basic Act largely as drafted and bring it into force on Jan. 22, 2026, alongside the main law. The Ministry of Science and ICT rejec... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday disclosed five major issues in the enforcement decree for the AI Basic Act that drew significant public comment and amendment requests durin... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 24, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Software company ServiceNow’s application to acquire identity-security startup Veza will be reviewed under Australia’s new merger regime. In a statement on Wednesday, the Australian Competition &... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Skyworks and Qorvo intend to pull and refile Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification filings in early January, according to a securities filing. The companies filed their notification forms with the US Fe... (more story)
December 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Skyworks intends to pull and refile its Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification forms relating to its proposed acquisition of Qorvo, according to a securities filing. The companies filed their f... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Shinhan Card is under investigation by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after a public-interest report prompted a fact-check that turned up signs of a possible personal-data breach. The Personal In... (more story)
December 24, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has released a draft decree stipulating sanctions for violations of the Data Law for public consultation until Jan. 2. The draft proposes administrative fine... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes
North America
With landmark trials against Meta Platforms, TikTok, Snap and YouTube due to begin in late January in Los Angeles on allegations that the platforms' addictive design is responsible for a teen mental health cri... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 23, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, increasing the pressure to pass key legislation swiftly.
December 23, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Former Patent Trial and Appeal Board Chief Judge Scott Boalick is leaving the US Patent and Trademark Office after 18 years of service, he announced Tuesday in an email to coworkers. His departure will be foll... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires took the rare step Monday to initiate director review sua sponte in an already instituted inter partes review, citing a previous determination by the US Int... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 23, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
On the February day that President Trump ordered a pause on enforcement of a key US anti-bribery law, companies previously targeted under that law whose stocks are publicly traded saw an average gain in market... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield led a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the complete defunding of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Th... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued purported crypto asset trading platforms Morocoin Tech Corp., Berge Blockchain Technology Co. Ltd. and Cirkor Inc. and investment clubs AI Wealth In... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fewer firms provided cross-border investment services in 2024, but far more retail clients used them, EU financial markets watchdog ESMA has said. A report published on Monday covers data from 30... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, or OJK, said Friday that it has set up a new division called the Digital Banking Supervision Directorate, which will begin operating in 2026 as part o... (more story)
Trade View More
December 23, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The US Commerce Department incorrectly disclaimed its authority to define the scope of the antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on freight rail couplers from China and Mexico, the US Court of International Trade ruled.
December 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade partially remanded antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on freight rail couplers imported from China and Mexico.
December 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection announced in a notice made public Tuesday that it had initiated an investigation to determine whether Daffodil Parmachem, an Indian chemical manufacturer, evaded ... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A new EU strategy for the Arctic is being prepared as the bloc moves to update its approach to the region’s climate, security and geopolitical challenges, with a call for public feedback now open... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has won approval from the European Commission for a €20 billion reform of its electricity capacity mechanism aimed at ensuring security of supply during winter peak periods. The program, w... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A plan to shorten the closing time of cross-border intraday electricity trading from 60 to 30 minutes before delivery has been approved by the EU energy regulator. The move is intended to allow t... (more story)
Technology View More
December 24, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Deere & Company told a US federal judge Tuesday that information requests by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's data security practices are too broad, calling the move a "fishing expedition."
December 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice has reached a tentative agreement with LivCor LLC that would prohibit algorithmic coordination and the exchange of competitively sensitive data with competitors as pa... (more story)
December 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Texas App Accountability Act because it likely violates the First Amendment. The judge found that the Computer and Communications In... (more story)