MLex Summary: Kringloop Nederland, a trade association representing thrift stores, can introduce standard terms and conditions for negotiations with companies in the textile sector over collection and sorting,... (more story)

MLex Summary: Football's global governing body FIFA has struck an out-of-court settlement with Lassana Diarra, a sportsman who had taken antitrust action over transfer rules. FIFA said there was no "admission ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) is scheduled to hold nine Tribunal sessions in the second half  of this year. According to the calendar, the CADE Tribunal will vote on case... (more story)

The Japan IP High Court rejected three lawsuits challenging the Japan Patent Office’s refusal to allow revisions to granted autonomous-driving patents, holding that Subaru’s driver-assistance manual and known ... (more story)

China is studying whether artificial intelligence can assist in generating patent-examination opinions, signaling a potential expansion of AI's role into core patent-examination functions. The initiative, toge... (more story)

VLSI Technology on Friday decried efforts by Intel Corp., Patent Quality Assurance LLC and the US Patent and Trademark Office to keep allegations of an Intel-PQA connection under wraps. Their shared resistance... (more story)

MLex Summary: US producer Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts alleged in a request to the Commerce Department for a circumvention review that China is evading antidumping duties on tissue paper through Vietn... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis in a new report said the goods and services deficit barely decreased, reaching $55.9 billion in April, down just $0.7 billion from March. ... (more story)

The EU and Canada could conclude negotiations on a digital trade agreement by the autumn — in time for an EU-Canada leaders' summit in Ottawa — according to commission official Agata Gerba. The talks, launched... (more story)

MLex Summary: An initiative against the practice of disabling online video games has gained widespread support among EU lawmakers. In a joint call for action on Tuesday, 45 lawmakers across multiple political ... (more story)

The European Parliament’s work on an EU digital simplification bill will forge ahead even as lawmakers wait for a long-demanded impact assessment that's expected by October, according to Marina Kaljurand, a ke... (more story)

A federal judge in Florida said Monday that a tech industry challenge to Florida’s social media content-moderation law will likely be headed for trial in September, unless he reconsiders whether two trade grou... (more story)