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Intellectual Property
January 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe, Middle East
Energy, Trade
January 14, 2025 | Stefano Porciello and Jean Comte
Europe
Data Privacy and Security
January 13, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
January 14, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Apple’s commercial success is down to healthy competition in the digital marketplace, the company told a UK judge today as it set out its defense against a mass claim over app ecosystem behaviors. Earlier in t... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Japan's NYK and MOL criticized a class representative's methodology for inflating a mass claim as they started their defense against an action over a car-shipping cartel on the second day of a UK trial. The ac... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Federal Trade Commission published a second interim staff report on the prescription drug middleman industry, which focuses on pharmacy benefit managers’ influence over specialty generic drug... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 14, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Matt Clifford, the AI venture capitalist and author of the action plan intended to transform the UK into an AI superpower, has joined the government as AI Opportunities Advisor, an unpaid role. Google DeepMind... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s 2025 annual strategy on artificial intelligence lays out the potential risks posed by AI to intellectual property but takes a soft approach, only committing to continued st... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Patent and Trademark Office committed to extensive studies of concerns around artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights in its annual strategy, as well as planned further ex... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 14, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Packaging companies Amcor and Berry Global submitted their proposed merger for review by US antitrust officials on Jan. 6, according to an offer document filed by Amcor with the US Securities and... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Natalie McNelis
Europe
"Killer acquisitions" are in French competition authority's crosshairs with a new consultation to ensure France has the power to review and refer mergers that don’t meet its thresholds for notification. Three ... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A targeted call-in power, a new mandatory notification criterion for certain companies holding a degree of market power, as well as another third option, are among proposed tools to ensure that n... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook today, which aims to help prev... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian Attorney-General of the Union (AGU) confirmed receiving a response from Meta last night, following a formal request for clarification about the termination of its fact-checking prog... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Realme have been instructed by Thai regulators to remove pre-installed lending apps, such as Fineasy, on their devices and to submit a detailed report to the Pe... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Panasonic, Sun Patent Trust and Xiaomi have signed a patent license agreement for cellular communication standards after amicable negotiations, according to a statement published today by Panason... (more story)
January 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The White House’s annual intellectual property report to Congress, published yesterday, put a bow on the Biden administration, summarizing the IP work of the executive branch’s agencies. Mostly focusing on out... (more story)
January 14, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Biden administration published its final edition of the annual White House intellectual property report for Congress, a publication listing all the IP efforts and initiatives pursued by the e... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 14, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Phoebe Seers
Europe
The UK will see its Russian sanctions regime stress-tested this week as the country's top judges hear appeals from billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler and Russian businessman Sergei Naumenko. The government... (more story)
January 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Gemini Trust, a New York trust company, was ordered to pay $5 million for making false or misleading statements or omissions to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The 2017 statements we... (more story)
January 13, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Through his company Brutus Trading, former Standard Chartered executive Julian Knight has filed a notice of appeal against a US judge's denial of his attempt to revive a lawsuit alleging that the... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 14, 2025 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
The Bank of England suggested today that a decision on whether to proceed with a digital pound is still two years away. In an update today, the UK’s central bank said a decision would only be made after comple... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s financial services regulator has been asked to dig deeper into the “blanket use” by banks of personal guarantees for small business loans. In a letter to the Financial Conduct Authority'... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The first two new projects of the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub this year will explore AI-based tools supporting supervision and green finance, according to its work program f... (more story)
Trade View More
January 14, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
China limits the access of EU medical devices to its government contracts "in an unfair and discriminatory way," the European Commission said in a report today. It warned Beijing that it might follow with puni... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is evidence that China’s public procurement rules unfairly discriminate against EU medical device makers, the European Commission said in a report issued today. China is limiting EU produce... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
The EU has voiced concerns over new US restrictions on AI chip exports to certain member states, according to a statement by the bloc’s digital and trade chiefs, Henna Virkkunen and Maroš Šefčovič. The commiss... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
January 10, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Italian gas distributor Italgas has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance to buy its smaller rival 2i Rete Gas. The European Commission has set a Feb. 13 deadline to decide on the deal.
January 09, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China’s Chamber of Commerce to the EU has called on the bloc to “promptly rectify its improper measures under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” The statement followed an announcement in which Mo... (more story)
Energy View More
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An exemption allowing the use of fluorinated gases, or F-gases, in certain self-contained refrigeration equipment for another 18 months was published in the EU's Official Journal today. Certain s... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: New EU rules for the in-service verification of CO2 emissions of heavy-duty vehicles were today issued in the Official Journal. They set out detailed procedures, in line with guiding principles a... (more story)
January 14, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Climate transition plans can enhance financial stability assessments by identifying adjustments that non-financial companies and financial institutions may need to face climate risks, according t... (more story)
Technology View More
January 14, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Platforms such as Elon Musk's X need to take responsibility for their content and put in place measures to mitigate risks of political interference, the EU’s digital chief said. Asked in a media interview abou... (more story)
January 13, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
In response to the growing misuse of personal data and artificial intelligence, Japan’s digital regulation regime is expected to tighten this year with a proposed AI bill, the enforcement of content takedowns ... (more story)
January 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google told a US federal judge there's “no basis for the extreme and sparingly used sanctions” sought by a multistate coalition led by Texas accusing the tech giant of destroying internal employe... (more story)