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Intellectual Property
April 07, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Financial Services
April 06, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 02, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Maria Dinzeo, Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
April 07, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top court has clarified how so-called “other concerted conduct” may be established in cartel cases, in an administrative judgment that upheld penalties against 11 concrete producers. The ruling, disclo... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has issued new guidance to promote the “high-quality development” of its e-commerce sector, outlining measures to strengthen platform governance and competition enforcement amid growing external scrutiny... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government pledged to crack down unfair trade practices, including hoarding, collusion or any market manipulation that could disrupt the supply of medical products such as syring... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 06, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
US federal workers are being told they can log back into Anthropic's Claude for Government service in the wake of a ruling by a California federal judge who granted an injunction blocking the Defense Departmen... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Washington state is rolling back a sales tax carveout for replacing data center equipment after Governor Bob Ferguson signed SB 6231 into law last week. Washington is just one of several US states this year re... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s cyberspace regulator has released draft measures to govern digital virtual-human services, aiming to promote healthy development and standardize their use. The proposal requires providers... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Merck and Terns Pharmaceuticals will file Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notifications related to their merger "no later than April 14, 2026," according to a US securities filing. The waiting pe... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU’s much-scrutinized system for referring mergers from the national level to Brussels could face fresh questions if Portugal or Spain asks the European Commission to review a small deal in the airport bag... (more story)
April 07, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
MicroStar Logistics’ proposed acquisition of Konvoy’s Australian assets has been referred to an in-depth Phase 2 review under Australia’s new merger laws, with the competition regulator set to investigate whet... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: New research on children’s online privacy has prompted the UK data protection regulator to launch a campaign Tuesday warning of risks and encouraging parents to talk to children about the topic. ... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Snap have said they will continue to voluntarily detect and report online child sexual abuse material, despite the expiry of an EU ePrivacy derogation that h... (more story)
April 07, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippines will not ban gaming platform Roblox despite mounting concern over online abuse and sexual exploitation of children. Instead, authorities are shifting toward stricter child-safety ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 07, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese court has rejected a copyright infringement claim over a song, finding that a music company acted in good faith after the songwriter tacitly allowed its use of the work for years.
April 07, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
The Osaka District Court rejected a lawsuit by a Buddhist temple priest and his temple seeking to deny copyright infringement and silence an author’s accusations, holding that the priest’s social media posts a... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Kirti Gupta, vice president and chief economist at Cornerstone Research, told MLex the globally fractured standard-essential patent enforcement environment has served to further increase legal costs and bring ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 07, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Former Corsa Coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson asked a US judge to set aside his corruption conviction over his role in a scheme to bribe officials of an Egyptian state-owned company for... (more story)
April 06, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge said Monday that he will throw out the conviction of a Texas-based Mexican businessman for paying bribes to officials of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in exchange for contracts. US District Judge... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The Trump administration has submitted for court approval a new plan to cut the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this time by about two-thirds of the agency’s employees rather than an initial plan to r... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 07, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian Financial Services Authority, responsible for regulating the country's banking and financial sector, has introduced a new social media guideline for the commercial banking industry... (more story)
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s financial watchdog said Monday an emergency inspection of the country’s major virtual-asset exchanges, conducted for about a month from Feb. 10 to Mar. 6 after Bithumb’s mistaken pa... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued three states over what the agency described as its exclusive authority to oversee booming prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC, led by Cha... (more story)
Trade View More
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Finance ministers from five EU member states have written to Wopke Hoekstra — the Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth — calling for a new EU-wide windfall tax on energy companies ... (more story)
April 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations into oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates.
April 06, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia, North America
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has labelled India’s content takedowns “politically motivated” trade barriers, and said stricter tech rules, weak trade secret protection, data restrictions... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 07, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a Lithuanian scheme that aims to compensate Litgas for supplying a mandatory quantity of liquefied natural gas to a terminal in the port of Klaipėda. The meas... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy has filed a second challenge over a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal, which broadens out arguments made in the first. The cas... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the French government's plan to support Électricité de France with the construction and operation of six nuclear reactors. The ne... (more story)
Energy View More
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission said in a policy dialogue with the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines that its market study found generator-affiliated retail electri... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU steelmakers are urging the European Commission to widen the scope of its carbon border levy, to tighten anti-circumvention rules, and to delay any move to include pre-consumer steel scrap as a precursor. Ad... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU steelmakers are calling for a broader extension of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream goods, tougher anti-circumvention measures and the exclusion of pre-consumer steel scrap... (more story)
Technology View More
April 07, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
There is “an absence of empirical evidence” of harmed competition in the live ticketing market, an economist testifying for Live Nation told jurors on Monday during a high-profile antitrust trial. Dennis Carlt... (more story)
April 06, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Indonesian ministry of communication and digital affairs has reprimanded the Steam platform, one of the world’s largest digital-distribution platforms developed by Valve Corporation, for prov... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Live entertainment venues are asking for more money from ticketing providers due to a rise in competition in the sector, a Ticketmaster executive testified in the company's defense on Friday in a high-profile antitrust trial.