Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Italy's maritime and air transport sectors underwent further consolidation despite already high concentration, according to a joint report by the national competition authority and central bank covering 2010 ...(read more)

MLex Summary: American Airlines Group, Delta Air Lines, Alaska Air Group, other airlines and the Airline Tariff Publishing Co. have been accused of illegally colluding on airfare prices. The US complaint claims that the ai...(read more)

MLex Summary: Google moved to dismiss a third amended US complaint filed by Korea-based android developers, which accuses it of unlawfully monopolizing the global markets for Android app distribution and in-app payment pro...(read more)

PepsiCo asked the US Supreme Court to treat trademarks’ inherent strength as a legal question for judges, saying it helps define owners’ rights to restrict similar branding. It argued its win against Rise Brewing should st...(read more)

Drugmakers secured experimental treatments, expanded biosimilar portfolios and renegotiated royalty obligations, while life-sciences companies acquired technology and resolved patent disputes. Elsewhere, licensing provided...(read more)

This week, the Unified Patent Court refused to suspend Netflix’s injunction despite the European Patent Office’s subsequent revocation of the patent at issue. Hamburg departed from other divisions by requiring each party t...(read more)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department announced an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation into certain Chinese imports of wooden fence components, with alleged dumping margins of 109.01 to 232.23 percent and ...(read more)

Talks on changes to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act are provisionally scheduled to resume on Dec. 9, as national governments have yet to agree on plans for a dedicated raw materials center, MLex understands. Both membe...(read more)

Nord Stream 2 has lost its final appeal against EU gas-market rules governing pipelines linking to non-EU countries. The EU Court of Justice upheld the extension of rules to pipelines connecting member states with states n...(read more)

Google, Meta Platforms and other major technology companies face calls to improve complaint handling, explain account suspensions and provide greater transparency over their dealings with Japanese businesses as Japan prepa...(read more)

Regulator Ofcom has been accused of taking a "minimalist" approach to implementing the UK's Online Safety Act. During a parliamentary session examining the impact of the law, witnesses said Ofcom was not using the full sco...(read more)

MLex Summary: California Representative Zoe Lofgren, the US House Science Committee ranking member, who will be seeking the chairmanship next year when Democrats control the House, said Congress needs to stop politicizing ...(read more)