Major US generic pharmaceutical manufacturers involved in sprawling price-fixing litigation are seeking delays to a bellwether price-fixing case brought by Humana that's scheduled for a September trial.

MLex Summary: Direct purchaser plaintiffs asked a Minnesota federal judge to grant final approval for their $82.5 million settlement with Tyson Foods, resolving US antitrust claims accusing the company of enga... (more story)

MLex Summary: Retailers in the UK that employ misleading discounts and subscription traps in their practices face a clampdown in 2027 under new rules imposed by the government, the office of Prime Minister And... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified last week that the prohibition on presuming irreparable harm for permanent injunctions under eBay v. MercExchange and subsequent Federal Circuit preced... (more story)

Japan’s IP High Court has barred a publisher from continuing to reproduce and distribute 14 medical books after finding that an informal publishing arrangement could be terminated by the author at any time.

China has overhauled its patent priority-examination regime for the first time in nine years, shifting accelerated review toward emerging and future industries while imposing tighter procedural and integrity requirements.

The US Court of International Trade has sided with the Commerce Department in upholding Commerce's negative determination in its countervailing duty investigation of glass wine bottles.

EU governments, industry and campaign groups broadly back the European Commission’s planned Critical Raw Materials Centre, while differing over how far its powers should extend. Responses to a public consultat... (more story)

The EU’s push to tackle Chinese overcapacity will require a definition tight enough to capture state-backed structural oversupply, without encompassing ordinary export success. As Brussels weighs new or broade... (more story)

MLex Summary: A federal appeals court has dismissed appeals by Meta Platforms and TikTok for district court rulings about the limits of the companies' legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Dec... (more story)

The EU's plan for a €30 billion tender to build AI gigafactories — large-scale computing facilities designed to provide the huge processing power to train and deploy advanced AI models — amid a severe heatwave... (more story)

Two separate court rulings, one by a federal judge in California and one by a state court judge in New Mexico, could mean trouble ahead for the "attention economy." The federal judge found recommendation algor... (more story)