MLex Summary: South Korean used-car platform HeyDealer has been reported to the Korea Fair Trade Commission over allegations that it abused its bargaining position against dealers by offering inadequate compen... (more story)

The federal judge who will preside over the high-stakes trial between 29 states and Meta Platforms that begins this week in Oakland, California, is not likely to be intimated by the moment or the power of liti... (more story)

According to a sprawling set of US lawsuits recently consolidated in District of Columbia federal court, plaintiffs in some of the largest class actions in the country are also the victims of collusion among c... (more story)

India's patent system finally has a test for deciding when an invention is merely a mental act, after the Delhi High Court stepped in where the patent office hadn't. The seven-step framework could curb arbitra... (more story)

Eight days after US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires suggested that the risk of multiple-owner harassment should not remain an independent basis for obviousness-type double patenting, his offi... (more story)

A decision last week from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarifies the standard for identifying priority dates for prior art taken from provisional patent applications, returning law to pre-Am... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade partially remanded an intergovernmental agency panel that declined to remove a US car battery importer from an entity list under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. 

MLex Summary: Thai producer Saha Thai Steel Pipe Company Limited has filed an appeal at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to contest the Court of International Trade's July ruling that upheld the... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korean producer Hankook Tire & Technology Co., Ltd filed a complaint at the US Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's July review of an antidumping order on pas... (more story)

Lawmakers across Europe are on notice in the wake of a ruling by France's highest constitutional authority that blanket social media bans for minors may be found to conflict with protections for freedom of exp... (more story)

Temu companies PDD Holdings and Whaleco Technology have appealed against the European Commission's €200 million fine for failing to properly assess systemic risks linked to illegal products sold through the on... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's Communications and Digital Affairs Ministry has asked Apple and Google to remove Hornet from their Indonesian app stores, saying the platform has not registered with the government as... (more story)