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Data Privacy and Security
January 16, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Trade
January 16, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Financial Services
January 16, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
Antitrust View More
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice submitted an amicus brief in Oregon loggers' appeal of the dismissal of their monopolization and tying claims against Iron Triangle and Malheur Lumber Co. In its brie... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
With another round of antitrust litigation between Epic Games and Google ramping up – and a new participant, Samsung, at its heart – a federal judge advised Google today that its conduct on evidence discovery ... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Emma Whitford
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan engaged in “wholly improper” conduct by forcing votes on multiple law enforcement matters in her final days on the commission and for taking the “unusual step” of an... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 16, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Artificial intelligence agents that can complete tasks for humans on their own have arrived on the tech scene, and companies like Nvidia made big promises at this year’s CES trade show about what the latest AI... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI is stonewalling Google's efforts to procure discovery related to remedy proceedings in a US Department of Justice-led monopolization lawsuit, Google said in a court filing. "Given the fact... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Republican US Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said outgoing chair Lina Khan held a closed commission meeting today to "force votes on several law enforcement matters." In a post on X, ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 16, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Europe, North America
Controversial new US merger enforcement guidelines have picked up support from judges who have incorporated them into key decisions.
January 16, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Goldman Sachs was penalized for "gun-jumping" after having failed to notify the Indian antitrust watchdog of its investment in Biocon Biologics. The Competition Commission of India imposed a fine of 4 million ... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Amy Klobuchar and 13 fellow Democrats have reintroduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act, which aims to increase US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Comm... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 16, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In a major setback for WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms, an Indian tribunal deferred its decision on granting the messaging app interim relief to stay an order of the country's antitrust watchdog... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission filed its first action related to connected vehicle data today, part of a flurry of last-minute actions the regulator has taken in the waning days of outgoing Chair Lina Khan's leadership.
January 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission was tasked by Congress this summer with ensuring data brokers do not sell American data to foreign adversaries. Now it has received one of its first complaints under that law fr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
October 2024 findings that two patents associated with the “Arexvy” respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine are invalid will stand, a UK judge ruled today, denying GlaxoSmithKline permission to appeal. Ju... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Pfizer is entitled to $3.24 million in reimbursed costs in connection with its successful challenge to two GlaxoSmithKline patents, a UK judge ruled. The decision by Judge James Mellor went on to... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office published a report today holding up its current fee structure as the most efficient way to raise funds, noting it does not create excessive barriers for innovation. The repor... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Miami real estate broker Roman Sinyavsky pleaded guilty to engaging in a scheme to violate US sanctions and commit money laundering by conducting transactions involving blocked property owned by ... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned two individuals and four entities for generating illicit revenue for the North Korean government through a weapons-tra... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Block, the operator of the peer-to-peer payments app Cash App, to refund and pay other redress to consumers up to $120 million and pay a penalt... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 16, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Treasury Secretary-nominee Scott Bessent said capital reforms for large US banks after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis over-reached, resulting in banking concentration and the flight of assets to unregulate... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Two Sigma Advisers settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over claims that it breached its fiduciary duty by failing to reasonably address known vulnerabilities in their investmen... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: American Express agreed to pay a $108.7 million civil penalty to resolve allegations it violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act by deceptively marketing credit ca... (more story)
Trade View More
January 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce has found that POM Copolymer imported from the US, EU, Taiwan, and Japan have been dumped in the country and the domestic industry has been materially impaired, the r... (more story)
January 16, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Commerce Department’s redetermination explaining how the Korean government’s provision of 100 percent of carbon trading units to some emitter... (more story)
January 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Commissioner Rhonda K. Schmidtlein will step down from the US International Trade Commission on Feb. 1.
State Aid View More
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
Technology View More
January 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Elon Musk's support of Germany’s far-right party Alternative for Germany has raised "serious concern" about election interference, a group of 38 European Parliament members told the European Comm... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey
Europe
Social-media, pornography and other online platforms received final guidance from the UK's online safety watchdog today on what constitutes “highly effective age assurance” in the effort to keep children away ... (more story)
January 16, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
European mobile telecom operators may face “more measures” to ensure they aren't using equipment that poses a cybersecurity risk as EU governments have failed to take action, the EU's digital chief, Henna Virk... (more story)