Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)