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Intellectual Property
December 19, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 19, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
December 19, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust View More
December 20, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
On Friday night, Victor Oliveira Fernandes, lead counsel in the Brazilian antitrust probe against Apple, submitted the company’s proposed settlement agreement to the competition authority’s Tribunal. The settl... (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.
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 19, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
A proposed class of authors suing Meta Platforms for allegedly distributing pirated books could see their case paused in early 2026, a federal judge in California warned Friday. Meanwhile, the judge is eager t... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has released a summary outline of legislation she plans to introduce in 2026, to be called The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Adva... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European AI Office will now have a head of AI safety after Matthieu Delescluse was appointed to the role, MLex has learned*. The crucial post has been vacant since the office was set up in June last year. ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 19, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Merck and Cidara Therapeutics were granted early termination of the applicable Hart-Scott-Rodino Act waiting period by the US Federal Trade Commission on Friday, according to a securities filing. The $9.2 bill... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Surface Transportation Board received the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern merger application. Comments on the completeness of the application are due by Monday, Dec. 29. The companies h... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Merck and Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. were granted early termination by the US Federal Trade Commission on Dec. 19, according to a securities filing. Merck announced its proposed acquisition of Cid... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 20, 2025
Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: NSO Group Technologies lost a bid to stay a permanent injunction from a US federal court to install its Pegasus spyware via Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp. "The court does not find that defendants have... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Google filed a US complaint accusing SerpApi of circumventing security measures protecting others’ copyrighted content that appears in Google search results. Google is asking the court to stop Se... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
State attorneys general across the US have largely won against motions to dismiss lawsuits claiming the design choices made by social media companies are harmful and addictive; however, the Supreme Judicial Co... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 19, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office designated 14 Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions regarding discretionary denial precedential or informative on Thursday, signaling an effort to cement precedent for sett... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Motorola does not have the right to claim compensatory damages from a US judgment in the UK, the English Court of Appeal has ruled. The judgment stops Motorola from claiming damages in the UK for a US trade se... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has won a landmark court victory, securing 30 million yuan ($4.3 million) in damages over the unauthorized use of its well-known trademarks on smart toilets, reinforcing the brand’s c... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 19, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
The US corruption trial of Smartmatic, its co-founder and a former executive, has been rescheduled to January 2027. The judge said she would not grant further extensions of pretrial deadlines, or the trial dat... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The February 2026 bribery trial of a former Pennsylvania coal sales executive should not be delayed, prosecutors said Friday, opposing his request for an adjournment to allow for a potential second review of the case.
December 19, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed proposed final consent judgments as to Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) Wang and Nishad Singh, b... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: European Parliament internal talks on the European Commission's proposal for a digital euro are progressing, with amendments published on Friday. These changes are due to be discussed by the Econ... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU governments on Friday formally adopted their stance on the single currency package proposed back in 2023. It includes a framework enabling the introduction of a digital euro and provisions on the legal stat... (more story)
December 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU governments on Friday adopted their stance on a framework enabling the introduction of a digital euro, two and a half years after the proposal was put forward by the European Commission. The C... (more story)
Trade View More
December 19, 2025
North America
The US Commerce Department’s 2019 review of antisubsidy duties on softwood lumber from Canada must be revised again to incorporate information from Canadian producers, the US Court of International Trade ruled.
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced charges against Chinese national Jinhua Wang, San Francisco businessman Xin Mian Pan, and three Chinese and Bay Area com... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service published an updated list of quantity-based trigger levels for products that may be subject to additional duties consistent with sa... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: BdM Banca isn't entitled to receive compensation for the damage it allegedly suffered due to the European Commission's decision for Italy to recoup illegal state aid from Banca Tercas, a legal op... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: On Wednesday, the European Commission approved a €4.1 billion Hungarian state aid scheme to support investment toward net zero technology manufacturing capacity and its components, under CISAF, t... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to give state support to aid the roll out of fast-charging stations for electric heavy-duty vehicles at non-serviced rest sites along motorways has won EU approval. The European Co... (more story)
Energy View More
December 18, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Members of a group to address the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence in the UK, which includes Google, Microsoft, and power companies, want the government to create a “SWOT team” to help navigat... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Professionals, experts and other interested parties have until March 12, 2026, to provide their views on the planned revision of the EU's 2018 Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climat... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's competition authority has said that most energy companies had not imposed excessive prices during the country's energy crisis in 2022-23, and that some had already reimbursed around €20... (more story)
Technology View More
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: A US appeals court ruled that even if Media Matters had a right to enforce X Corp.'s terms of service against its foreign affiliates, it waived the right to exercise the forum selection clause in... (more story)
December 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Almost three-quarters of respondents want the EU to introduce new regulatory obligations to address so-called digital dark patterns, design techniques used by companies to trick or manipulate use... (more story)
December 19, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms have seen the European Commission propose an extension of the current interim regulation in place, so providers can continue voluntarily detecting, reporting and removing child s... (more story)