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Intellectual Property
February 07, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
Artificial Intelligence
February 07, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Trade
February 06, 2025 | Ansley Franco and Joanna Sopinska
North America
Antitrust View More
February 09, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Proactive regulation is warranted in the age of artificial intelligence, India's top antitrust official said, citing growing concerns about the potential for AI-driven collusion and other anticompetitive pract... (more story)
February 09, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Almost two years had passed since Australia’s competition watchdog last launched fresh antitrust enforcement, making the recent announcement of a lawsuit targeting the publicly listed military base-services pr... (more story)
February 08, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Broadcom will enter consent decree proceedings with South Korea's competition regulator, which announced today its decision to initiate the process over allegations the company forced domestic se... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 09, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Frank Hersey
Europe
French President Emmanuel Macron said today that investors at France’s AI Summit will announce 109 billion euros in investment in artificial intelligence. “Europe will accelerate and France will accelerate,” M... (more story)
February 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Microsoft told a US federal court that Google served it with a deposition notice with 18 broad and burdensome topics. In a status report, Microsoft told the US District for the District of Colum... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania
Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Amazon are among frontier AI developers that today pledged to submit publicly accessible and comparable information on their risk management practices to the first centralized rep... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: UnitedHealth Group filed its answer to the US Justice Department complaint against its proposed acquisition of Amedisys. UnitedHealth says that it "seeks to bring increased efficiency, heightened... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Nippon Steel is planning an investment in US Steel rather than a purchase of the company, President Donald Trump said Friday following a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Trump, who mistaken... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
MLex Summary: The United Steelworkers responded to claims by President Donald Trump that Nippon Steel would seek an investment instead of purchasing US Steel by continuing to encourage him to seek American alternatives.
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 08, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
A federal judge in New York has blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from having access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans, citing data privacy and security concerns i... (more story)
February 08, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Paul Engelmayer granted a temporary restraining order to a group of 19 states seeking to block access by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to Americans' personal d... (more story)
February 08, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Elon Musk's X, platform formerly known as Twitter, has been ordered by a German court to provide election data to researchers after they sued the platform to secure access to social media data to... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 07, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A final determination by the US International Trade Commission that Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology infringed a valid Ventria Bioscience patent won’t be disturbed. In a precedential ruling today, the US Court o... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The longstanding requirement in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont federal courts that a trade dress complaint involving similar product designs must establish distinctiveness of the articulated trade dress is... (more story)
February 07, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: A total of 38 international publishing organizations and representatives of rightsholders and journalists have signed the “International Charter on ‘Culture and Innovation’,” published as part of... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 07, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Days after US Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded a kleptocracy task force aimed at the assets of Russian elites, federal prosecutors argued at the conclusion of an evidentiary hearing that a sanctioned oliga... (more story)
February 06, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: A CITIC Bank branch in China's Rizhao city, Shandong Province, received a warning and a fine of 540,000 yuan ($74,000) for violations related to cybersecurity, data security and anti-money launde... (more story)
February 06, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A Brink’s Co. subsidiary operated outside an exemption to anti-money laundering regulations for currency transporters, according to settlements with US authorities announced today. The exemption covers a “narr... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Rodney Hood, a member of the US National Credit Union Administration, has been named acting head of the US Comptroller of the Currency effective Monday.* He will replace Michael Hsu. To become p... (more story)
February 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it will hold a forum of chief executive officers from industry-leading firms to discuss the launch of its digital asset markets pilot program... (more story)
February 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority has opened for feedback its provisions on the conditions for EU central counterparties authorizations, extensions of authorization and validations of... (more story)
Trade View More
February 07, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
The US Court of International Trade determined that the Commerce Department was correct to use Taiwanese manufacturer San Shing’s financial statements to calculate the dumping rate for Taiwanese steel nail exp... (more story)
February 07, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department’s constructed value calculation for mandatory respondent Your Standing in a 2021-22 administrative review of an antidumping d... (more story)
February 07, 2025
Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has amended the dumping rates assigned to Brazilian exporters of raw honey following the Court of International Trade’s decision to sustain Commerce’s first remand rede... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A draft new EU state aid mechanism, allowing members of the public to request the European Commission to review certain decisions to establish whether they breach EU environmental law, has now be... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
Canadian company ABC Technologies has sought EU foreign-subsidy clearance to buy British automotive components company TI Fluid Systems, according to an update on the European Commission's register of deals. ... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair today lost its legal challenge to renewed EU clearance for Portuguese rescue aid of up to 1.2 billion euros to its flag-carrier airline in light of the pandemic. In 2021, the EU General C... (more story)
Energy View More
February 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The share of renewable energy sources used in transport in the EU was 10.8 percent in 2023, an increase from 9.6 percent in 2022, the European Commission has said, citing Eurostat data. Sweden re... (more story)
February 06, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: January 2025 was the warmest January on record globally, with temperatures 1.75 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to the latest EU Copernicus Climate Change Service report. T... (more story)
February 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: 422 million euros will be allocated to 39 projects across the EU for deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, contributing to decarbonization and cleaner transport, the European Commission... (more story)
Technology View More
February 07, 2025 | Chris May
Europe
Amazon products began disappearing from online search results on the company’s global e-commerce platform amid increased antitrust scrutiny from US and European enforcers in 2023, according to economic researc... (more story)
February 07, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal sent letters to tech companies, including Amazon and Google, following a report that said they placed advertisements on websites known to host ... (more story)
February 07, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Apple has been asked by the UK government to give it access to the encrypted data of users of its cloud service worldwide, according to media reports today. The UK's Home Office told MLex it can’t comment on i... (more story)