Elevator makers Kone and TK Elevator have agreed a €29.4 billion deal to combine their businesses into a global player. Kone’s CEO said regulatory filings will begin shortly, with approvals required from the E... (more story)

Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, wants an Australian judge to issue relief orders that have "a global market" approach, allowing Australian developers to distribute apps elsewhere and for Apple to eliminate co... (more story)

Mastercard’s agreement with Coles was designed in part to protect transaction volumes and limit the appeal of routing debit payments through Eftpos, an Australian court heard on Wednesday in an antitrust trial... (more story)

Landmark litigation between Tesla and InterDigital saw arguments aired in a UK Supreme Court hearing this week that centered on a dispute between the parties over whether or not the English courts’ jurisdictio... (more story)

Garrett Reynolds, co-founder of code access startup UpCodes, says a recent ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirming the company’s fair use defense marks a significant moment not just... (more story)

China’s top court has clarified how to assess whether trademarks consisting of short phrases are distinctive and eligible for registration, in a retrial involving British perfume house Penhaligon’s.

MLex summary: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a new report that export controls on critical raw materials reached an all-time high in the past 15 years through 2024. The repor... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Energy announced agreements with Central and Eastern European nations to increase pipeline and natural gas infrastructure to support more energy exports to the region. The US... (more story)

MLex Summary: William Kimmitt, the US under secretary of Commerce for International Trade, announced the formal launch of the Trump administration’s “Trade over Aid” approach that focuses on promoting free-mar... (more story)

MLex Summary: British telecom operator BT is being investigated for potentially failing to comply with legally binding requests for information from regulator Ofcom. The probe relates to requests issued in Dec... (more story)

Hong Kong will advance autonomous-vehicle trials across its borders with mainland China and Macao this year, marking an early step toward self-driving services that would operate across multiple jurisdictions ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU’s age-verification app should be made active in all member states by the end of the year, the European Commission said on Wednesday. Countries are urged to accelerate the rollout of the ap... (more story)