MLex Summary: Agri Stats President Eric Scholer said in a statement that he and his company are pleased to put the US Department of Justice's antitrust case "behind us." He added, "For more than forty years, A... (more story)

MLex Summary: Google's motion for a partial stay of the final judgment pending appeal in the Department of Justice's lawsuit over Internet search monopolization was denied without prejudice by a US federal jud... (more story)

MLex Summary: An Ace Hardware consumer filed a US complaint accusing the buyers’ cooperative of illegally coordinating local prices and dividing local markets. The complaint claims that since 2010, the Ace coo... (more story)

Sisvel is seeking companies to join an Ultra Ethernet patent pool and expanding its POS licensing program, while Nokia highlighted broad licensing deals in China. Longhorn IP continued to add to its digital pa... (more story)

Despite lengthy comments from numerous IP stakeholders, standard essential patent (SEP) policy issues got little attention in the Office of US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report on IP trade. But ... (more story)

A decade after its enactment, the Defend Trade Secrets Act has become the dominant vehicle for trade secret enforcement in the US. Practitioners say the statute has brought consistency to a once-fragmented are... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Thursday struck down President Donald Trump’s use of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10 percent global tariff, with a divided panel of judges ruling the ... (more story)

US manufacturers producing a range of steel, aluminum and metal goods argued on Thursday for targeted tariffs against China and other countries with excess capacity, telling an interagency panel that a surge o... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade ruled against President Donald Trump's 10 percent global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, ruling for a coalition of 24 Democratic-led states ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Agri Stats reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to resolve antitrust claims over its sharing of information on price, output and costs among competing meat processors, the agenc... (more story)

MLex Summary: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced in a post on social media that the US Department of Justice has reached a settlement with Agri Stats regarding price-fixing claims over chicken, tur... (more story)

MLex Summary: Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi announced during a speech that the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division has begun signing onto "reasonable timing agreements" with merging pa... (more story)