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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Data Privacy and Security

January 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Chris May

North America

Texas to seek state Supreme Court review of Google's location data win

Antitrust

January 15, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America, North America

Apple, Brazil CADE clash over global precedents for App Store probe
Synopsys logo is displayed on smartphone. Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company.

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

South Korean review of Synopsys-Ansys nears conclusion, remedies expected

Antitrust View More

AB InBev probed in Belgium over possible competition-law breaches

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: AB InBev is the target of a formal investigation opened by the Belgian antitrust enforcer over whether the Leuven-based brewer engaged in illegal cartel agreements or abused its market power, the... (more story)

Czech construction companies probed over possible bid-rigging

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Two construction businesses in Czechia are now under investigation by the national competition authority, to see if they engaged in a cartel. The suspected conduct concerns an illegal agreement i... (more story)

Swiss sports arbitration court decisions must be reviewable by EU judges, adviser says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Rulings by Switzerland's Court of Arbitration for Sport must be able to face a “full review” by national courts in EU member states, according to a legal opinion prepared for the bloc’s top court... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

AFP and Mistral AI forge global partnership for conversational AI assistant

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: News agency Agence France-Presse and Mistral AI, a leading developer of general-purpose AI models, have signed a global partnership to feed AFP’s daily editorial production in six languages to Mi... (more story)

Program to monitor AI Act implementation set out by EU lawmakers

January 16, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

The EU lawmakers involved in the working group dedicated to monitoring the implementation of the AI Act have defined the tentative work program for the first half of 2025, focusing on the code of practice for ... (more story)

AI, minors, cybersecurity, digital in French data watchdog’s four-year strategic plan

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The action plan for 2025-2028 of France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés prioritizes artificial intelligence, minors’ rights, cybersecurity and everyday digital uses. The ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Amex GBT-CWT probe to be extended by UK antitrust regulator

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK antitrust probe of American Express Global Business Travel Group’s planned acquisition of CWT is to be extended by six weeks to enable the regulator to evaluate submissions and any further... (more story)

Viavi considers bidding for Spirent assets to be sold for Keysight merger approval

January 16, 2025 | Jon Menon

Europe

Viavi Solutions is considering making an offer for the Spirent Communications’ high-speed ethernet and network security assets that are being auctioned as part of Keysight Technologies’ efforts to get antitrus... (more story)

Nokia, Ericsson ask EU to scrap ‘disastrous’ patent law and ease telecom mergers

January 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Inbar Preiss

Europe

Companies producing technology in the EU need to see the end of a “really bad” legislative proposal on Standard Essential Patents if the bloc is to stop “shooting itself in the foot” over innovation and R&D, t... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Signature of EU-Brazil personal-data agreement set for 2025, Brunner says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Negotiations for an agreement between Europol and Brazil to allow for the exchange of personal data in the fight against serious crime and terrorism were finalized at technical level on Oct. 18, ... (more story)

FC København can use facial recognition use at matches, Danish data watchdog says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Football club FC København has received approval from Denmark’s Data Protection Agency to use automatic facial-recognition technology at its matches. The club’s April 2024 request included proces... (more story)

Tech, pornography platforms receive UK guidance on age verification

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Online platforms operating in the UK received guidance today on age assurance from the online safety regulator Ofcom. Self-declaration methods were considered not effective. Publishers of pornogr... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Strabag infringed on Swarco's patent, UPC says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Vienna Local Division has ruled that Strabag Infrastructure & Safety Solutions infringed on Swarco Futurit's European Patent 2,643,717, and ordered Strabag to cease all... (more story)

Coinbase challenges EUIPO at EU court over trademark-related dispute

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Coinbase and the European Union Intellectual Property Office were heard by the EU's General Court today over their trademark-related dispute. Coinbase seeks to annul a 2023 decision by the EUIPO’... (more story)

UPC's Court of Appeal closes Avago-Tesla patent dispute as parties withdraw

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Appeals Chamber allowed Avago and Tesla to withdraw infringement and nullity counterclaims related to European Patent 1,612,910. The court declared the cases closed, or... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Australian competition watchdog CEO Scott Gregson set to leave

January 15, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The chief executive officer of Australia's competition regulator is set to depart and join the financial regulator in a senior leadership position. In an announcement today, the Australian Compet... (more story)

Block fined $80 million by US state regulators over Cash App compliance failures

January 15, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

Block was fined $80 million by regulators from 48 states over failures in its anti-money laundering compliance program at Cash App, its digital money-transfer platform.

Star witness expected to testify in former Cognizant executives' US bribery trial

January 15, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Srimanikandan Ramamoorthy, the star cooperating witness in the bribery case of two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions, is expected to travel to the US to testify at trial in Marc... (more story)

Financial Services View More

EU banks asked for feedback on environmental, social and governance guidelines

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU banking sector has until April 16 to provide feedback to the European Banking Authority's draft guidelines on environmental, social and governance scenario analysis. The guidance focuses o... (more story)

Global financial system sees FSB release toolkit to assess climate risks

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Financial Stability Board today released a report on the assessment of climate-related vulnerabilities, which contains an analytical framework and toolkit to assess those vulnerabilities. The... (more story)

EU industry committee on faster trade settlement begins work next week (update*)

January 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Jean Comte

Europe

A newly created EU industry committee is set to advise the bloc on how to shorten its trade settlement cycle from two days to one — a target known as T+1. The committee will kick off its work on Jan. 22 with a... (more story)

Trade View More

Chinese e-bikes to face hefty EU duties for five more years

January 16, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe

The hefty EU dumping and countervailing duties totaling nearly 80 percent on Chinese electric bikes will stay in place for a further five years, MLex has learned. The European Commission has concluded that ext... (more story)

Cut EU tariff-free steel quotas by up to 50 percent, industry urges commission

January 16, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Europe

The EU steel safeguard needs to be significantly tightened to bring urgently needed relief to the bloc’s steel industry, says a proposal seen by MLex. Eurofer, the industry lobby, is asking the European Commis... (more story)

PVH Group involved in "inappropriate conduct" in Xinjiang matter, China's Mofcom says

January 16, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: PVH Group, the parent company of clothing brands Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has been found to be involved with "inappropriate conduct" concerning Xinjiang matters, according to a preliminar... (more story)

State Aid View More

Scai can be asked to repay public support granted to Buonotourist, EU court says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Italian region of Campania can order Scai to repay support, based on a recovery decision the European Commission made with regard to Buonotourist, and on account of economic continuity betwee... (more story)

Madeira loses appeal over Portugal's tax incentives at top EU court

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Portuguese territory of Madeira has lost its appeal at the EU's top court against the European Commission's order for Portugal to recover tax reductions granted to companies. In 2023, the low... (more story)

Ryanair’s appeals of re-approved Italian Covid aid published by EU court

January 13, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU General Court today released summaries of appeals by Ryanair against an earlier decision to readopt Italian support to airlines to compensate them for damages triggered by the Covid pandem... (more story)

Energy View More

EU carmakers call for realignment of Green Deal

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The industrialization of the EU automotive sector should be based on market rather than penalties, and a “reality check” and “realignment” of the Green Deal is needed, the European Automobile Man... (more story)

Nuclear power buildup led by China and Russia, IEA says

January 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Nuclear power build-up worldwide is being led by China and Russia, the International Energy Agency said in a report. Chinese and Russian designs are used in all but four of the 52 reactors that s... (more story)

US, Norway issue critical minerals supply chain transparency report

January 15, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: The US and Norway issued a report presenting the two countries’ shared understanding of the non-market policies and practices of certain third-party countries that may distort critical mineral markets.

Technology View More

Google defends child location tracking service in South Korean court appeal

January 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

Google Korea argued before a Seoul court today that its child location tracking service "Family Link" complies with South Korean law by obtaining parental consent, challenging regulatory sanctions that demand ... (more story)

Singapore mandates age checks on app stores to shield kids

January 16, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Asia

Singapore is expanding its online-safety measures to app stores, which will soon have to implement age-assurance measures — including through artificial intelligence — to prevent children from accessing inappr... (more story)

App stores face new age-verification requirement in Singapore

January 15, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Starting March 31, major app-distribution services such as Apple's App Store and Google Play Store will have to comply with a new Singapore code requiring them to verify the age or age range of u... (more story)