The US Department of Justice portrays the container cartel case as a straightforward antitrust matter: a conspiracy to restrict output and raise prices in a manufacturing sector dominated by Chinese producers.... (more story)

Japan's competition watchdog recorded a sharp increase in enforcement against unfair treatment of small= and medium-sized enterprises as well as freelancers in the fiscal year ended March, as the government se... (more story)

MLex Summary: Samsung Heavy Industries’ request for a consent order to settle allegations of Subcontracting Law violations has entered the review stage in South Korea. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said Wedn... (more story)

India's Madras High Court has ruled that generic drug makers cannot rely on the statutory Bolar exception to export patented active pharmaceutical ingredients unless they can demonstrate that the exports were ... (more story)

Authors suing Meta Platforms for copyright infringement want a US appeals court to decide a narrow but consequential question: Can an AI company's downloading of copyrighted works from pirate "shadow libraries... (more story)

MLex Summary: Authors suing Meta Platforms are asking US District Judge Vince Chhabria to allow an immediate appeal of his summary judgment ruling that Meta's downloading of their books from shadow libraries w... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU dumping duties of up 59.4 percent on imports of sweetener aspartame from China that have been in place since 2022 are undergoing a partial interim review, the European Commission said Wednesda... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU imports of bolted and boltless steel shelves originating in China are now being probed over whether the products might have been dumped, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The move fol... (more story)

EU imports of bolted and boltless steel shelves made in China are being investigated by EU trade officials over whether the goods might have been unfairly priced, causing harm to the bloc’s industry. This is t... (more story)

MLex Summary: Big Tech platforms in Australia blocked millions of fake accounts last year to combat misinformation, according to the latest annual report by the Digital Industry Group, a tech advocacy nonprofi... (more story)

A California federal judge indicated Tuesday she may grant part of Yelp’s request to bar Google from relitigating issues already decided in the US Department of Justice’s own monopolization case against the tech behemoth.

MLex Summary: Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl, a California state judge in Los Angeles, has denied a motion from Meta Platforms and YouTube to overturn a $6 million jury verdict that said their social media apps harmed ... (more story)