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Japan’s competition agency aims to promote innovation through its competition policy and enforcement efforts, amid its widening mandate, a senior official at the Japan Fair Trade Commission, or JFTC, told repo... (more story)

China’s top competition regulator is breaking from its usual playbook of punitive crackdowns by spotlighting a quick merger approval in the energy-storage sector as a model for curbing price wars. The State Ad... (more story)

Companies in South Korea may be subject to fines if they fail to cooperate with antitrust investigations, as the country's competition regulator seeks to introduce penalties for non-compliance as part of a bro... (more story)

Foreign companies are increasingly turning to Chinese courts to resolve intellectual property disputes, China’s top court said, as rising caseloads, faster rulings and higher damages reshape the country’s IP l... (more story)

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court overturned a patent office decision that had stripped most protection from a Riken Technos coating patent, faulting the patent regulator for assuming an obvious prior a... (more story)

A California judge has dismissed claims that new state compounding pharmacy disclosure rules constitute a regulatory taking of trade secrets. Monday’s decision is a poor sign for compounders hoping to fight ba... (more story)

MLex Summary: Measures to protect the EU steel market from global overcapacity, including lower import quotas, have been approved by the European Parliament's International Trade Committee. The lawmakers on th... (more story)

Getting EU free-trade deals signed with Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia is a priority for Cyprus in its role chairing legislative talks for member states in the first half of this year, the coun... (more story)

MLex Summary: Chinese steel nail exporter Shanghai Yueda Nails Co. sold its products at less than normal value in the US, the Commerce Department said in a preliminary determination. The determination follows ... (more story)

Renesas Electronics America has had a search warrant executed at its premises as part of a US Department of Justice investigation into suspected price-fixing of semiconductor components, MLex has learned.

The UK’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, would like to share more of its progress with the big companies it supervises in order to build public trust in their efforts, the watchdog’s chief told lawmakers. The ... (more story)

The US Federal Trade Commission is looking at compliance with civil investigative demands as it enforces consumer protection law, Chris Mufarrige, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said Tuesday.