Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Chegg and Penske Media Corp.’s separate antitrust lawsuits alleging that Google used its search monopoly to coerce online publishers into providing cost-free content were dismissed Wednesday by a Washington, D... (more story)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation giving state antitrust enforcers a new tool to pursue monopolization and monopsonization. But with the state's Department of Justice already pressing its ant... (more story)

A bipartisan group of US Senators discussed upgrading a federal cybersecurity law as they talked about their huge worries at a hearing over OpenAI's agentic breach of the systems at Hugging Face. "It's time to... (more story)

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday dismissed a Japanese voice actor’s bid to force TikTok to remove videos allegedly using an AI-generated imitation of his voice, finding that the posts had already been del... (more story)

US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires said Tuesday he is considering returning decisions on the merits of patent review petitions to Patent Trial and Appeal Board panels while retaining control ... (more story)

The US should recognize datasets as commercial assets or risk falling behind China in developing AI, IP specialists said. China’s registration framework can help businesses document their control of data, prot... (more story)

The US on Wednesday led a group of countries in releasing a new framework for adopting practices that curb overcapacity in steel goods, as the Trump administration looks to push back against China’s excess capacity. 

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission preliminarily determined that a US industry is materially injured by allegedly dumped and subsidized imports of linear hydraulic cylinders from Canada, China... (more story)

MLex Summary: The members of the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity (GFSEC) agreed to a new framework in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during a G20 trade ministerial to crack down on excess capacity in steel, inclu... (more story)

Pornography provider First Time Videos has paid an £80,000 fine and blocked access for UK users after online safety regulator Ofcom found it had breached its Online Safety Act duty to use highly effective age ... (more story)

The UK state has been “far too small and far too timid” when it comes to protecting women and children online, the country's culture and media minister has said. Her remarks at the governing Labour party's ann... (more story)

After nine video-games companies came under EU consumer scrutiny over in-game currencies, industry groups said they remained at odds with authorities over how the currencies should be classified. The dispute c... (more story)