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Artificial Intelligence
January 24, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust, Trade
January 24, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Antitrust, Technology
January 24, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Antitrust View More
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge denied certification of a class of millions of Facebook users in an antitrust case against Meta Platforms that claims it illegally acquired and maintained a monopoly in the “personal s... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Chris May
North America
New antitrust litigation against Deere & Co. brought by the US Federal Trade Commission and two states received a chilly welcome today from an Illinois federal judge who raised concerns about political motivat... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Christopher Mufarrige has been named acting director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, MLex has learned, taking the reins of the agency’s privacy and consumer protection division.
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 24, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi and Jean Comte
Europe
France wants the threshold for a general-purpose AI model to qualify as entailing a “systemic risk” to be updated by the time the relevant AI Act’s provisions start to apply on Aug. 2. In a document prepared f... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The providers of cloud services for AI face the introduction of minimum energy-efficiency criteria as part of an upcoming "EU Cloud and AI Development Act," the European Commission said in a draft strategic do... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Europe
MLex summary: The French government suggested changes to EU rules to simplify regulations and boost the bloc's competitiveness. Proposals include an indefinite postponement of the corporate sustainability due ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Private equity firm Patient Square Capital and its acquisition target Patterson Companies filed premerger notification paperwork to US antitrust agencies on Dec. 31, 2024, according to a filing s... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: A request by Global Business Travel Group and CWT Holdings for an expedited case management conference was denied today by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. A trial dat... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: Federal Judge Rubens Calixto, from the Third Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region (TRF3), suspended the effects of a preventive measure by the Superintendence of the Administrati... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 24, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
US casino MGM has received initial approval for its $45 million settlement to resolve privacy allegations arising from two data breaches in recent years that compromised the personal information of approximate... (more story)
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Maryland Attorney General told a US appeals court that to the extent that the pass-through provision in the state’s Digital Advertising Gross Revenue Tax Act regulates speech, it covers speec... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Chipmakers and technology companies are poised to see a proposed EU legislative initiative on quantum computing in the second quarter of 2025, according to a draft European Commission strategy document seen by... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A decision by Judge Colm Connolly of the District of Delaware to grant Shibuya Hoppmann Corp. judgment as a matter of law of no infringement under the reverse doctrine of equivalents was itself r... (more story)
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A claim construction by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the disputed term “hardware buffer” will not be undone, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circu... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology has taken aim at Samsung Electronics and HP, filing its seventh and eighth US lawsuits since September 2024 over Sisvel-licensed patents declared essential to the 80... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 24, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's rescission of an accounting bulletin capped a series of victories for cryptocurrency deregulation this week and set up the potential for further reduction in the ove... (more story)
January 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced the indictment of five people for their roles in a fraudulent scheme to obtain remote information technology work with US companies that generated revenue for ... (more story)
January 23, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Supreme Court granted a government request for a stay that will enable enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, a law requiring companies to file a report naming their beneficial own... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 24, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A review of the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime — a set of regulations to ensure the accountability of executives and staff in key functions with financial services firms — has been expected for mo... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority today published its updated report on the rules on conflicts of interests for crypto asset service providers under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regul... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK wholesale brokers have been told to focus on detecting misconduct and enhancing oversight to prevent "undesirable" behavior. In a letter from the Financial Conduct Authority on the watchdog's ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 24, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US activated carbon manufacturers Calgon Carbon and Norit Americas contested the 16th administrative review results for the antidumping order on Chinese activated carbon.
January 24, 2025
Asia, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: Ecuadorian shrimp exporters Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila and Sociedad Nacional de Galápagos contested the antisubsidy and antidumping duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp imported from Ecuador.
January 24, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced it will review the Economic and Trade Agreement between China and the US to determine whether China is acting in accordance with the agreement,... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 24, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Enforcing EU tech rules against “gatekeeper” digital platforms is a key action to help revive the European economy, according to a draft policy document setting out plans to overhaul business regulation in the... (more story)
January 23, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian government has announced it will acquire A$50 million ($31.4 million) of debt from the largest creditor of failed airline Rex Airlines, as part of a campaign to ensure air services... (more story)
January 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Khushita Vasant
Europe, North America
US President Donald Trump has struck out at "very unfair" treatment of US companies by European regulators, saying cases against Apple, Google and Meta Platforms are a form of taxation. He told an audience in ... (more story)
Energy View More
January 24, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
Companies subject to the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due-Diligence Directive should see an “indefinite postponement” of its implementation, a French government policy document says. Citing competitiveness ri... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Stefano Porciello and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU energy consumers should see the upcoming affordable energy action plan address system costs, risks and poor integration, a document seen by MLex shows. The bloc will also try to better coordinate the action... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU cleantech manufacturers have four weeks to comment on specific rules under the Net-Zero Industry Act — the bloc's law to promote clean technology across the EU. The rules under consultation fo... (more story)
Technology View More
January 24, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms and search engines, including Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, and X, joined national authorities and civil society organizations in Berlin today to discuss t... (more story)
January 24, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU companies working in critical sectors will have priority in the bloc’s public procurements to boost local production and “reinforce technological security and domestic supply chains”, the European Commissio... (more story)
January 24, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association has called for stronger copyright protections in the government's artificial intelligence policy proposal, which was released in December. The... (more story)