Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Google's deeply integrated businesses in advertising technology present a special structural risk that online markets will continue to suffer, the European Commission said. In a decision published on Thursday,... (more story)

MLex Summary: Data portability in the insurance sector could save consumers between C$1.1 billion (US $791 million) and C$3.8 billion (US $2.7 billion) in annual costs, according to a report by Canada’s Compet... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has released a provisional version of its September decision to fine Google €2.95 billion euros for abusing its power over the adtech industry. The text stresses the struc... (more story)

Apart from handling infringement cases and revoking multiple patents this week, the Unified Patent Court clarified the nature of unitary patents under EU law. Microsoft secured a win with the revocation of a S... (more story)

Lego has lost its appeal against a ruling that the design of one of its blocks is invalid, after a Chinese company successfully argued that it was too similar to another block previously produced by the Danish... (more story)

EU lawmakers are backing voluntary AI licensing deals in a non-binding report on copyright and generative AI, signaling how creators should be paid as the European Commission prepares a broader copyright revie... (more story)

MLex summary: US import prices increased 0.4 percent from September to November,  while export prices increased 0.5 percent in the same time period, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. T... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that lattice bloom crawler cranes from Japan are dumped in the US.

MLex Summary: EU leaders will press to deepen trade ties and wrap up the bloc’s trade deal with India, when European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meet ... (more story)

X's move to suspend and geoblock certain image editing features on Grok has been welcomed by the UK government as the country’s online regulator said it was “working round the clock” on its investigation into ... (more story)

Major companies in telecommunications, retail, and other sectors that handle large volumes of personal data will face advance inspections by South Korea's privacy regulator as part of its shift from reactive p... (more story)

A group of federal appellate judges zeroed in on whether California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code can be blocked in full based on the law’s threshold test for services “likely to be accessed by children.”