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Artificial Intelligence
December 22, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 22, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger and Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Intellectual Property
December 19, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Price-comparison website Foundem’s changes to its UK antitrust lawsuit against Google over search shopping practices are invalid and must be struck out, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled.... (more story)
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A company owning a dominant online real-estate advertising portal, its parent and three directors have received charges from the Portuguese antitrust authority accusing them of abusing their mark... (more story)
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Lithuania will reduce first stage fines for competition violations by half from May 1, 2026, after parliament approved amendments to antitrust laws, the country's competition watchdog said on Tue... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 23, 2025 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Tokyo on Tuesday approved a plan to become “the world’s best country to develop AI,” underscoring its ambition to derive greater benefit from—and play a larger role in shaping—the ongoing technological revolution.
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission announced it has issued an order to reopen and set aside a 2024 final consent order involving Rytr LLC. The FTC said that the complaint failed to satisfy the legal... (more story)
December 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
AI dataset provider Laion is set to see an appeal by a German photographer against a court ruling that found the company, when scraping an image of his for AI training data, could rely on research exceptions a... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 23, 2025 | Wesley Brown, Flavia Fortes
North America
The US Federal Communication Commission under Chairman Brendan Carr increased activity and showed clear viewpoint changes in 2025, and utilizing its view of the "public interest" to back up its positions is a ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
The US Department of Justice, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a coalition of state attorneys general have asked a federal judge in California to resolve a dispute over how confidential information may be used i... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Getty Images and Shutterstock didn't see eye to eye with the UK merger regulator over market share and the impact of Big Tech and AI in its initial review of their merger. The CMA rejected a proposed stock und... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 23, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
With states racing to adopt mobile driver’s licenses that critics say could fuel new forms of online tracking, Utah is testing a digital identity model designed to prevent the technology from becoming a surveillance tool.
December 23, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK data privacy watchdog has welcomed the government’s proposed cybersecurity reform bill, but warned that unclear rules and funding constraints could limit its effectiveness. In a response published Tuesd... (more story)
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office welcomed the government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill but warned that unresolved details risk undermining its impact. In a s... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 23, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office proposed rules Tuesday that would require foreign applicants and patent owners be represented by a registered patent practitioner for actions before the office, effectively e... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful quotation or reporting and upholding removals, ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
French fashion house Louis Vuitton has won a landmark appeal in China against a Shenzhen-based bag maker accused of misusing its trademarks by recycling second-hand luxury goods into new products.
Financial Crime View More
December 23, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
On the February day that President Trump ordered a pause on enforcement of a key US anti-bribery law, companies previously targeted under that law whose stocks are publicly traded saw an average gain in market... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield led a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the complete defunding of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Th... (more story)
December 22, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued purported crypto asset trading platforms Morocoin Tech Corp., Berge Blockchain Technology Co. Ltd. and Cirkor Inc. and investment clubs AI Wealth In... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 23, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The British Chamber of Commerce has listed 25 recommendations to the UK government in order to improve ties between the EU and UK, five years after the trade agreement between the two regions was concluded. Th... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Fewer firms provided cross-border investment services in 2024, but far more retail clients used them, EU financial markets watchdog ESMA has said. A report published on Monday covers data from 30... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, or OJK, said Friday that it has set up a new division called the Digital Banking Supervision Directorate, which will begin operating in 2026 as part o... (more story)
Trade View More
December 23, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced that the US will impose tariffs on China pursuant to a Section 301 investigation into China's targeting of the semiconductor industry for domin... (more story)
December 23, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department determined that paper file folders from Cambodia are not being dumped in the US but are subsidized by the Cambodian government.
December 23, 2025
Asia, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department determined that hard empty capsules imported from Brazil, India, China, and Vietnam are dumped in the US and being provided countervailable subsidies by their respective governments.
State Aid View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Corsair is set to benefit from €167.8 million in support after the EU approved the state aid from France following an in-depth probe. In a statement, the European Commission said the aid for the ... (more story)
December 23, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
More European industries will benefit from compensation under the bloc’s state aid rules as technical guidelines get an update to ensure companies don’t shift activities outside of the EU to countries with wea... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompati... (more story)
Energy View More
December 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A new EU strategy for the Arctic is being prepared as the bloc moves to update its approach to the region’s climate, security and geopolitical challenges, with a call for public feedback now open... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has won approval from the European Commission for a €20 billion reform of its electricity capacity mechanism aimed at ensuring security of supply during winter peak periods. The program, w... (more story)
December 22, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A plan to shorten the closing time of cross-border intraday electricity trading from 60 to 30 minutes before delivery has been approved by the EU energy regulator. The move is intended to allow t... (more story)
Technology View More
December 22, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
New York Governor Kathy Hochul reviewed a flurry of bills over the weekend as the legislative year drew a close, signing one requiring social media companies to warn users about the potentially negative impact... (more story)
December 20, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google and Epic Games submitted a status report on the implementation of the injunction issued in their US antitrust dispute, saying they don't have any present disputes regarding Google’s compli... (more story)
December 20, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Trial in the Live Nation and Ticketmaster monopolization lawsuit, brought by the US Department of Justice and multiple states and territories, ought to be limited to four or five weeks, a US federal judge said.