The interim president of Brazil’s competition regulator said a long-held notion that “regulation of digital markets must not hinder innovation” needs to be put aside.  Diogo Thomson de Andrade argued that inno... (more story)

MLex Summary: Herbert D. Lutz of South Carolina pleaded guilty to rigging bids for cattle purchases in the bovine artificial-semination industry between 2018 and 2024, the US Department of Justice said in a pr... (more story)

MLex Summary: The National Farmers Union urged US federal lawmakers to pass omnibus legislation known as the farm bill with provisions that include "real protections against corporate monopolies" and other mea... (more story)

China has for the first time rejected a patent-invalidation request after finding that it was filed in bad faith and was not genuinely intended to challenge the patent’s validity, clarifying the limits on the ... (more story)

Eli Lilly's acquisition of AtaiBeckley last month signals that major drugmakers increasingly view psychedelics as a promising source of future psychiatric medicines and new patent-protected drug franchises.

The New York Times and a group of regional newspapers cannot allege deeper involvement by Microsoft in OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model training, US District Judge Sidney Stein ruled. The plaintiffs fail... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade sided with the International Trade Commission in a July ruling made public Thursday, upholding the USITC redetermination that Moroccan and Russian phosphate fertilizer impor... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission released its report on the effectiveness of US import controls for solar cells in effect from 2018 to February 2026. The four-year tariffs were imposed durin... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission voted to retain the current antidumping order for Chinese imports of hand trucks and hand truck parts, finding a revocation would lead to material injury for... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korea’s revised Network Act does not contain provisions that discriminate against US companies, the country’s communications regulator said in response to a letter from Republican members o... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan’s police, digital, financial, telecom and consumer authorities jointly called on five major social-media operators, including Google, Meta Platforms and X, to strengthen measures against fr... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications revised content-moderation guidelines Thursday under the Information Distribution Platform Act to include new examples of illegal informati... (more story)