Alps Alpine received a corrective recommendation on Tuesday for violating Japan's Subcontract Act by imposing unfairly low purchase prices on three subcontractors supplying automotive electronic components, de... (more story)

Japanese ice cream makers including Meiji and Morinaga & Co. were raided on Tuesday as Japan's antitrust watchdog opened an investigation into a suspected cartel involving retail ice cream and frozen desserts.... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s eastern province of Shandong will subject its provincial, municipal and county-level policy measures affecting companies to targeted checks under a 2026 fair-competition review campaign a... (more story)

BMW secured a court order temporarily stopping Zync's ITC trade-secret case, which targets imports of vehicles with the automaker's latest infotainment systems, as a US federal judge concluded that a forum-sel... (more story)

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into US Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's challenge to judicial-conduct proceedings against her, leaving intact an appellate ruling that bars district court review ... (more story)

Japan’s annual intellectual property strategy has moved artificial intelligence, content, standards and intangible asset policy closer to government implementation, setting up work on a generative AI transpare... (more story)

MLex Summary: Cargill, Corteva and Walmart were among more than 200 representatives from US state governments, business groups, companies and academic institutions who joined delegates from five Chinese provin... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan’s chipmaker Rapidus said on Monday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK Semiconductor Centre to support cooperation on semiconductor technology and manufacturing for... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade upheld the Commerce Department’s dumping margin calculations and Commerce’s draft liquidation instructions for certain Chinese tires imported by tire manufacturer Giti, but ... (more story)

Stanley Woodward, associate attorney general at the US Department of Justice, has been put in charge of running the agency's Antitrust Division, MLex has learned.

MLex Summary: Restrictions on high-risk features, stronger age checks and limits on sexually explicit AI chatbot functions are some of the additional measures planned by the UK government, in response to its c... (more story)

MLex Summary: Tech and digital services available to children should pass an age-tiered certification before they reach the European market, a coalition of more than 100 child-safety experts and organizations ... (more story)