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Swedish agricultural cooperative Lantmännen is taking its fight against a cartel fine to the EU’s highest court after judges in January dismissed its first appeal. The dispute hinges on whether it was treated ... (more story)

Coupang and South Korea’s antitrust regulator clashed in court over whether a recent Supreme Court ruling in Naver’s alleged abuse of dominance case undermines the legal basis for a 2024 antitrust sanction imp... (more story)

The market regulator in China's Liaoning Province said in an announcement Thursday that it will recruit experts for merger review and antitrust enforcement, as China expands merger-review powers to provinces t... (more story)

Harvard College’s insulin-cell patent rejection was overturned by an Indian court, which cited a "glaring error" by the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks. The Delhi High Court ordered a fr... (more story)

US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires sees artificial intelligence aggressively reducing the patent backlog even with strict human oversight of AI outputs, he told MLex.

A new study argues that the structure of Schedule A litigation and local rules in one US court could allow intellectual property owners to steer cases away from the courtrooms where they are most likely to fac... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU steelmakers are calling for a broader extension of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream goods, tougher anti-circumvention measures and the exclusion of pre-consumer steel scrap... (more story)

The US government will impose 100 percent tariffs on pharmaceuticals whose manufacturers do not lower prices but included several carveouts in an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday.

The European Union’s passage of a delayed free trade agreement with the US, seemingly resolving a standoff with Washington, could portend some smoothing of US-EU tensions, but the US’s recent announcement of w... (more story)

An umbrella group of EU data protection authorities will release guidelines on anonymization — a key concept on how the bloc’s data protection rules are applied to personal data — by the summer, the group’s ch... (more story)

UK adults are increasingly using AI tools in everyday life, with some turning to chatbots for advice and conversation, research by the media regulator Ofcom shows. The study comes as the UK examines how to reg... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK adults are posting less on social media, and the proportion of users who feel that the benefits of being online outweigh the risks has fallen to 59 percent — down from 72 percent last year — n... (more story)