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Data Privacy and Security
June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Trade
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Artificial Intelligence
June 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
June 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Tianjin antitrust regulator fined and confiscated illegal gains from four companies and five individuals for price fixing, with penalties totaling 362 million yuan ($51 million), accordin... (more story)
June 16, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Google has lost its bid to halt a contract lawsuit against its new Play Store billing policy. An Indian court has clarified that civil courts can hear cases concerning specific contractual agreements, even whe... (more story)
June 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: In a major setback for the US tech giant, an Indian court has dismissed Google's attempt to throw out a lawsuit filed by Testbook Edu Solutions, which challenges the new Play Store billing policy... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
June 16, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's Internet regulator-affiliated center for reporting illegal and harmful information and the China Association for Science and Technology have unveiled typical cases that highlight cross-ag... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
A New York state bill modeled after a controversial California safety proposal that was vetoed last year is heading to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk for approval. The New York Assembly and Senate have approved the ... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Amy Miller and Alex Wilts
North America
US state lawmakers are taking aim at the use of pricing algorithms, whether they’re used for “surveillance pricing” to charge people different prices for goods like groceries or airline tickets, or to orchestr... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a US Justice Department motion to hold the case brought by Nippon Steel and US Steel in abeyance. The parties' lawsuit claims ... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission Administrative Court ordered that all prehearing deadlines in GTCR-Surmodics' March 31, 2025, scheduling order be suspended until further notice. This comes follow... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French bank BPCE said today that it will acquire 75 percent of Portuguese lender Novobanco from private equity firm Lone Star Funds, for approximately 6.4 billion euros. It is also in talk with t... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
June 13, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
With a jury trial in San Francisco just over a month away over women's fertility app Flo Health's alleged illegal sharing of millions of US women's menstrual and pregnancy data with Google and Meta Platforms, ... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Apple moved to dismiss an amended US complaint in a lawsuit brought by child sex abuse survivors who claim the tech giant allowed child sex abuse material to be stored on and disseminated on its ... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Office of Personnel Management will likely have to provide audits detailing records access by Department of Government Efficiency personnel, a federal judge in New York said today.
Intellectual Property View More
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: News outlets including the New York Times, Daily News and Center for Investigative Reporting are criticizing OpenAI's proposal to sample ChatGPT logs in ongoing US copyright litigation. OpenAI's ... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Latin America
Brazil’s Patent and Trademark Office this week unveiled a new path to registration for generic or descriptive trademarks which would ordinarily be vulnerable to rejection. In a notice published in its Official... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
In the software industry, where IP rights frequently change hands, language matters. That much was evident yesterday when the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Cloanto Corporation lacks standing t... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
June 13, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A San Francisco venture capital firm turned to lawyers in 2018 for an opinion on whether US sanctions imposed on a Russian billionaire would apply to its investments. The advice GVA Capital received was incorr... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: At a plenary this week, the global Financial Action Task Force approved changes to its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance standards that it said will improve the safety and secur... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Miami real estate broker Roman Sinyavsky was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating US sanctions and money laundering laws after conducting transactions involving blocked property ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today opened a consultation on possible measures to be presented in the fourth quarter of the year to support wider participation in occupational and personal pension sche... (more story)
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin, of Russia and Portugal, was sentenced to eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation and... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Sofia Gerace and Phoebe Seers
Europe
UK financial regulators have come under criticism from a group of lawmakers in Britain's upper chamber, the House of Lords, who concluded after an inquiry that the financial regulatory system is too risk-avers... (more story)
Trade View More
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative has asked Mexico to review whether workers at the Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. (TAMSA) facility are being denied the right to freedom of association an... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Europe, North America
The European Union’s trade surplus with the US grew over the 12-month period ending in April despite ongoing trade tensions and tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, the Eurostat agency said today.
June 13, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe, Latin America
EU officials are considering splitting the EU-Mercosur partnership agreement's political and trade components to ease and speed up the ratification process for the latter part, MLex has learned. A similar move... (more story)
State Aid View More
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is a risk that public funds from the special infrastructure fund to modernize Germany's rail network may indirectly benefit other areas of railway group DB through cross-subsidization, the ... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission's procedure for dealing with state aid complaints could get a boost, under a Code of Best Practices issued today. The guidance lays out how state aid procedures work in pr... (more story)
June 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The transfer of public land free of charge to Norwegian property developer Masserud Utvikling — due to the municipality’s failure to enforce its claim under the sale agreement — amounts to unlawf... (more story)
Energy View More
June 13, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
EU member states' plans to expand nuclear energy will require investments of around 241 billion euros, according to the European Commission’s new “Nuclear Illustrative Program” published today. Additional fund... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: To thrive, the EU nuclear supply chain needs stable long-term commitments, greater standardization levels and enhanced cooperation, the European Commission has said in a report outlining the role... (more story)
June 13, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: National regulators should benchmark cybersecurity investments in the EU's electricity sector by using a clear, consistent, and focused approach, energy watchdog ACER said in a guide published to... (more story)
Technology View More
June 13, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google is paying “lip service” to its discovery obligations by “slow-rolling” the production of remedy feasibility submissions to the European Commission and “continuing to withhold relevant, non... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
A pool of eleven school district and personal injury lawsuits filed against the biggest social media companies including Meta Platforms, Google and ByteDance have been selected for trial in a large-scale US li... (more story)
June 13, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Se... (more story)