MLex Summary: DirecTV has told the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that it should issue a mandamus order directing the US Federal Communications Commission to “rule swiftly” on a request from a coalitio... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Spanish antitrust authority said it has closed its probe into whether UFD Distribución Electricidad, as well as its parent companies Holding Negocios Electricidad and Naturgy Energy Group, di... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japanese music school operator Sheer received a corrective recommendation Tuesday for violating Japan’s freelance worker protection law. The Japan Fair Trade Commission and the Small and Medium E... (more story)

A Shanghai court has upheld a ruling that an individual user infringed copyrights by training and publishing artificial intelligence image-generation models based on a popular Chinese animation character, whil... (more story)

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court is reviewing a Japan Patent Office decision rejecting a patent application for streaming-video technology after the agency found the applicants added server-side functi... (more story)

Dutch multinational Philips suffered a major legal setback after an Indian court quashed its DVD patent royalty decree, rejecting the company’s standard essential patent and FRAND claims. The Delhi High Court ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission opened a call on Monday for evidence on possible EU powers for stockpiling, joint purchasing, financing support and market intelligence for strategic minerals. The initiat... (more story)

MLex Summary: Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, in Beijing on Monday, according to a statement released by the Ch... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement to review whether workers at Mexican auto parts manufacturer Faurecia are be... (more story)

This summer, for the first time, four social media companies were set to face a jury together over claims their intentionally addictive designs fueled a youth mental health crisis. Now, Meta Platforms will sta... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK privacy regulator told lawmakers in an April 28 letter that Information Commissioner John Edwards remains formally in post despite having stepped back from duties during an HR investigatio... (more story)

MLex Summary: Plaintiffs who brought privacy and sex-trafficking claims against X Corp. failed to convince the US Supreme Court to review their case.