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Intellectual Property

December 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

Court upholds ‘Made in USA’ false ad award, injunction, without survey evidence
container ship

Trade

December 12, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

US shipbuilding effort faces big obstacles in bid to challenge China
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Artificial Intelligence

December 12, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

US state lawmakers try to tackle rising costs of data center building boom

Antitrust View More

Cargill, Cooper, Farbest obtain final nod for US turkey price-fixing settlements

December 16, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Cargill, Cooper Farms and Farbest Foods, as well as commercial and indirect purchasers of turkey, obtained final settlement approval Tuesday in a US federal court, resolving the plaintiffs’ price-fixing claims.

Booking sees German court order damages over pricing clauses (update*)

December 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Reservation platform Booking must pay damages to more than a thousand accommodation providers, after a Berlin court found fault with the use of pricing clauses dating back to 2013.

Orzaks probed in Turkey over possible dominance abuse

December 16, 2025

Middle East

MLex Summary: Dietary supplements company Orzaks is under investigation to see if it abused its market power by imposing purchasing obligations on pharmacies, the Turkish antitrust authority said Tuesday. The ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

UK to study how AI regulatory gaps limit its use in energy system

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Gaps in AI regulation in the UK — which are preventing the adoption of AI in operating its energy systems, which would in turn allow the overall uptake of AI — are to be investigated in a new stu... (more story)

Regulate AI to protect democracy, Council of Europe tells national parliaments

December 16, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: Officials from the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly have said that national parliaments must take more responsibility over AI to shape its development and regulation to ensure it ... (more story)

Platforms face UK inquiry on addictive design; ministers reaffirm chatbot concerns

December 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Online platforms regulated under the UK’s Online Safety Act will be subject to a parliamentary inquiry into addictive use of technology and how that impacts children’s development. It will likely begin early n... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Anglo American, Teck Resources make commitments to get Canadian antitrust approval

December 16, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

Anglo American and Teck Resources received antitrust approval from the Canadian government after making numerous commitments, including a promise to spend at least C$4.5 billion in Canada within five years, an... (more story)

NEC and CSG filed HSR notification Dec. 4, deal also requires CFIUS approval

December 16, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

Japanese technology firm NEC and US billing, payment and customer-experience platform creator CSG Systems filed their Hart-Scott Rodino premerger notification on Dec. 4, 2025, according to a filing with the US... (more story)

NEC, CSG need antitrust approval in UK, Australia, Japan, elsewhere

December 16, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: NEC and CSG Systems International will need antitrust approval in the US, Australia, Japan, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UK. It will also need national security approval from the US... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Illusory Systems settles with US FTC over coding vulnerability

December 16, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Illusory Systems reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over claims that it failed to implement adequate data security measures, leading to a major security breach in which hac... (more story)

NetChoice celebrates injunction placed on Arkansas social media law

December 16, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Tech trade association Netchoice lauded a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge halting the implementation of Arkansas Act 901, which prohibits social media platforms from incorporatin... (more story)

Tech firms to see UK plan to tackle anti-female violence on Dec. 18, govt confirms

December 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Tech companies are set to feature prominently in UK plans to tackle violence against women and girls, which the government has confirmed will be published on Thursday after a number of delays. Reports of a pus... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Sanofi's second medical use patent revoked by UPC in win for generics

December 16, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

French company Sanofi has lost its claim for a patent for a new therapeutic use for its established cancer drug to three generic pharmaceutical companies, Stada, Dr. Reddy’s and Zentiva. The ruling suggests th... (more story)

China launches self-check campaign to curb certificate-lending in patent agency industry

December 16, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia

China has launched a nationwide crackdown on misconduct in the intellectual property services sector, directing all patent and trademark agencies to carry out immediate self-inspections and complete required r... (more story)

US judge rules for OpenAI, says robots.txt files don't control access to web content

December 15, 2025

North America

MLex summary: US District Judge Sidney H. Stein dismissed a US Digital Millennium Copyright Act circumvention claim against OpenAI, finding that plaintiff Ziff Davis's robots.txt files don't control access to ... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US senator seeks probe of national security risks posed by DeFi exchanges

December 16, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pamela Bondi calling for their agencies to ... (more story)

Former Fox executive, company ask Supreme Court to let US dismiss corruption case

December 16, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Europe, North America

A former 21st Century Fox executive and a sports marketing company have each asked the US Supreme Court to allow the government to dismiss a corruption case against them linked to broadcasting rights for inter... (more story)

Full Play Group wants US Supreme Court to grant, vacate, remand case

December 16, 2025

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: Full Play Group, a sports marketing company, asked the Supreme Court to grant its petition for a writ of certiorari in its corruption case, vacate a lower judgement and remand the case back to a ... (more story)

Financial Services View More

UK financial services reforms hampered by slow legislative ways, FCA warns

December 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

The UK’s legislative machinery moves too slowly to keep up with rapidly evolving financial markets and is now holding back essential consumer and market reforms, the Financial Conduct Authority's chief has war... (more story)

UK considers overhaul of capital rules for specialized investment firms

December 16, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

Britain’s financial watchdog is weighing an overhaul of capital rules for specialized trading firms, arguing they are currently held to bank-level standards despite posing lower risks to the financial system. ... (more story)

Finance lobby questions EU countries' stance on capital rules for securitization

December 16, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Europe

Concerns over EU countries' stance on a revamped securitization framework have been raised by European banks and market players, represented by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe. The organization... (more story)

Trade View More

USCIT partially remands Vietnamese fish fillet antidumping investigation finding

December 16, 2025 | Zack Budryk

North America

The US Court of International Trade has remanded the determination of a Commerce Department investigation into Vietnamese imports of frozen fish fillets back to the department, siding with a US trade group tha... (more story)

US trade court rejects injunction request from importer

December 16, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Court of International Trade on Monday rejected a request from an importer for a preliminary injunction to suspend the liquidation of emergency tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump as the Supreme C... (more story)

Automotive sector set to see EU plan for local content requirements spelled out

December 16, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe

The automotive sector will in January see further local content requirements — policies forcing companies to use a certain percentage of domestically produced goods with the aim to boost the bloc’s local indus... (more story)

State Aid View More

Avinor can have more aid for new airport in Norway, EFTA watchdog says

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Avinor will receive more public funding for the construction of a new airport near the Northern city of Mo i Rana, following a revised cost estimate, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said Tuesday.... (more story)

Affordable-housing needs prompt EU regulator to open route to more subsidies

December 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

The lack of affordable housing for lower and middle-income families is pushing the European Commission to open up a new avenue to swifter clearance for larger subsidies by EU governments. A new category of sta... (more story)

Belgian nuclear reactor state aid approval published by EU

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU approval of Belgian state aid to keep the Doel 5 and Tihange 3 nuclear power reactors running for another 10 years was published Tuesday. The European Commission cleared the support in Feb... (more story)

Energy View More

EU eases car 2035 emissions target, adds flexibilities to support carmakers

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: European carmakers will have to comply with a reduced 90 percent tailpipe emissions reduction target by 2035, while the remaining 10 percent emissions will need to be compensated by using low-car... (more story)

EU opens 4-week consultation on new battery labeling regime

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a four-week consultation on its plans for battery labeling across the EU. The plans aim to ensure a consistent format across the EU single market for informatio... (more story)

EU ministers voice concerns about planning powers, cost-sharing in EU grid plan

December 15, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

EU energy ministers have criticized the top-down planning, cost-sharing and permitting reforms in the European Commission's recently announced plans for strengthening the EU's electricity network.

Technology View More

TikTok, Google get US case over content moderation decisions dismissed

December 16, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A federal judge has dismissed claims alleging that TikTok and Google had inadequate reporting processes and made misrepresentations about the removal of harmful content. The plaintiffs are barred... (more story)

New short-term rental rules to feature in EU’s affordable housing law in 2026

December 16, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU is planning to introduce new rules for short-term rentals to support areas under housing stress, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The measure, announced as part of its planned affo... (more story)

BT and Three pledge cooperation with UK probes into network outages

December 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Mobile companies BT Group and Three have vowed full cooperation with the UK telecom regulator after it opened probes into outages that disrupted call services, including access to emergency numbers. The operat... (more story)