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Intellectual Property

December 19, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

US Copyright Office finalizes group registration of 2D artworks

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

December 19, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

Latin America

Saipem, Subsea7 amend merger paperwork in Brazil, restarting deadline
Brazil. 6th Oct, 2021. In this photo illustration the Roblox logo seen displayed on a smartphone.

Data Privacy and Security, Technology

December 19, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Roblox hit by fourth US state, Tennessee, on child-safety claims

Antitrust View More

Apple submits final settlement proposal over App Store practices in Brazil

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)

Google, Epic Games file status report on US injunction compliance

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)

DOJ's Ticketmaster monopoly trial should be kept under five weeks, US judge says

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

US judge may pause Meta torrenting case in effort to speed fair use analysis

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)

US Sen. Blackburn proposes federal AI policy framework

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)

Matthieu Delescluse appointed AI safety head in EU Commission's AI office

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

Merck, Cidara Therapeutics see US FTC grant early termination for $9.2bn deal

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)

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern submitted their merger application to US STB

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)

Merck, Cidara Therapeutics granted early termination by US FTC

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

NSO loses bid to stay US injunction against installing Pegaus spyware via WhatsApp

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)

Google files US complaint against SerpApi over data scraping

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)

Mass. high court considers Section 230 protections as few other courts do

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

USPTO enshrines discretionary denial factors in precedential, informative decisions

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)

Motorola loses claim to trade secrets damages in the UK

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)

Xiaomi triumphs in Chinese appeal over smart-toilet trademark misuse

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

Smartmatic US bribery trial delayed to January 2027

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)

Former Pennsylvania coal executive shouldn't get bribery trial delay, US says

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.

Former FTX executives, Alameda chief consent to US SEC judgements

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

EU lawmakers push digital euro debate forward with amendments report

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)

Digital euro advances as EU governments finalize stance for talks with lawmakers

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)

EU countries agree position on proposal for digital euro

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

US Commerce wrong in Canadian lumber case, trade court says

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. 

US indicts two people, three companies, alleging antidumping duty evasion

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)

US publishes updated list of safeguard products

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

BdM Banca shouldn’t get compensation for EU recovery order, court opinion says

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)

Hungary gets EU approval for its €4.1 billion aid to net zero tech manufacturing

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)

EV charging stations on German motorways get EU state-aid approval

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

UK AI Energy Council calls for ‘SWOT team’ on regulatory, planning complexity

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)

EU opens 12-week consultation on planned revisions to energy and climate policy

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)

Energy companies in Germany reimbursed €200m collected during energy crisis

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

X Corp. gets US injunction barring foreign suits against Media Matters reversed

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)

72% want new legislation to tackle digital dark patterns, EU consultation shows

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)

Online platforms see EU propose extension of voluntary child-abuse detection rules

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)