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Intellectual Property
March 21, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Data Privacy and Security
March 21, 2025 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 21, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 22, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
The National Hockey League, or NHL, pushed back against allegations today that it was a “ringmaster” of an unlawful conspiracy that led to young hockey players being denied the freedom to choose where they played.
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Novartis AG told a US judge that it doesn't belong in an antitrust case filed by a group of state attorneys general over an alleged generic drug pricing-fixing conspiracy, arguing a lack of perso... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: There is "no specific regulation" for Third Party Litigation Funding in most EU countries, according to a study commissioned by the EU Commission and published today. The document tries to give a... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Department of Commerce is likely going to maintain its central role in tech policy — creating standards and entering into agreements — with a sharpened focus on national security under President Donald ... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
AI developers and right holders saw the European Commission present today the aggregate feedback to its preliminary approach to the template that providers will need to use to detail the datasets employed for ... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
Alphabet has told EU regulators it has acquired Galileo AI, a US startup that produces User Interface using artificial intelligence. Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, reported the deal to the Eu... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 21, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
US antitrust agencies have been filing fewer merger lawsuits in Washington, DC, which has increased trial expenses and tasked less-experienced courts with some of the federal government’s biggest, most sophist... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Latin America
MLex Summary: The Brazilian competition authority has published its clearance of SES' proposed acquisition of Intelsat in the country's official journal. The agency approved the deal without conditions.
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Steel and Nippon Steel have continued to pursue their proposed transaction by lobbying the Trump administration and filing lawsuits against United Steelworkers, according to a statement from U... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ use of personal data for direct marketing purposes and profiling related to those purposes should be subject to objections by users opposed to such processing, the UK data privacy... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Plaintiffs suing Meta Platforms over the use of its Pixel tracking tool have asked to depose CEO Mark Zuckerberg because he’s privy to the company’s decision-making for implementing privacy protections.
March 21, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency has launched an investigation into the ongoing US operations of China-aligned businesses whose equipment or se... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 21, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The European Union's Unified Patent Court said today that it lacks jurisdiction to determine the validity of national designations of a European patent but retains jurisdiction over infringement claims within ... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court has upheld its jurisdiction over IMC Créations’ infringement claims against two Mul-T-Lock subsidiaries concerning patent EP 4,153,830 in EU member states and Switzerland... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
An appellate European Patent Office board has ruled in Huawei's favor, overturning an earlier decision that rejected its patent application for a data migration method. The board found that the original decisi... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 21, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The removal of Tornado Cash from the US sanctions list follows a US appellate court decision last year that had limited the reach of the measures targeting the cryptocurrency-transaction anonymizing service. T... (more story)
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department has removed sanctions on Tornado Cash, citing a review of the legal and policy issues raised by their use against financial and commercial activity occurring within evo... (more story)
March 20, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former executive of Cognizant Technology Solutions facing corruption charges has hired new lawyers, who asked for a “reasonable” adjournment of his trial scheduled to begin early next month. The executive's ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 21, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Regulatory changes to EU financial services are needed to “create truly integrated and deeper European capital markets, by achieving the Capital Markets Union as a matter of urgency,” EU leaders concluded at t... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Tech company Etrading Software and Bondtape — a partnership comprising Finbourne and Propellant Digital — have both made it through the initial selection process to run the EU bond consolidated tape. The Europ... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has opened a market study into the sale of four “pure protection” products — term assurance, critical illness cover, income protection insurance and whole-of-... (more story)
Trade View More
March 21, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade today sustained a third remand by the US Department of Commerce for an antisubsidy review on corrosion-resistant steel from South Korea, ruling against a US-based steel prod... (more story)
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained the US Department of Commerce's third remand on an antisubsidy review for corrosion-resistant steel from South Korea. Chief Judge Mark Barnett said i... (more story)
March 21, 2025
North America
MLex summary: Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will invest $55 billion in manufacturing in the US over the next four years, the latest company to make a large investment in America as President Donald Tr... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The year 2024 was ''extraordinary'' both in terms of new cases filed to the EU's Court of Justice and in the number of cases completed by the institution as a whole, the court said when publishin... (more story)
March 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government has won approval for its plan to grant 960 million euros to spur investment in the production of equipment relevant for the transition to a climate-neutral economy, such as b... (more story)
March 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Czechia has secured approval for its plan to spend 90 million euros to back the construction or reconstruction and acquisition of affordable rental housing, the European Commission said today. Th... (more story)
Energy View More
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Energy Storage Inventory is the EU's new interactive tool that offers real-time data on sustainable energy storage, the European Commission has said. The platform shows all forms of ... (more story)
March 20, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that invoked emergency powers granted through the Defense Production Act to boost production of critical minerals, a key national security issue for the White House.
March 20, 2025
North America
MLex summary: President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to accelerate critical minerals production. Trump, who has made boosting critical minerals access for the US a... (more story)
Technology View More
March 21, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Online advertising companies, Big Tech platforms, and publishers are eager to see the next steps by the European Commission on how EU regulators should tackle online ads that spread illegal content. It’s still... (more story)
March 21, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The impact on children of Star Stable Entertainment AB, a games studio, is under scrutiny by the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network, said the European Commission, which is coordinating the e... (more story)
March 21, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The Japanese Children and Families Agency's recent decision to delay the national rollout of an artificial intelligence tool designed to detect child abuse has highlighted important lessons for Japan, where th... (more story)