MLex Summary: Coupang, Dunamu, Kolmar Korea, Orion and Toss are among the groups affected by South Korea’s 2026 large-business-group designations. The Korea Fair Trade Commission said 102 groups will be subjec... (more story)

Maryland has become the first state to restrict “surveillance pricing,” as lawmakers across the US seek to curb the use of personal data to tailor prices, though advocates warn many proposals include loopholes... (more story)

MLex Summary: A US appeals court reversed its order that had granted Apple’s motion to stay a mandate in the company's antitrust fight with Epic Games over its App Store restrictions. Apple had previously argu... (more story)

Aligos Therapeutics’ recent China licensing deal for chronic hepatitis B therapies enables it to broaden clinical development, generate more data, and tap into the world’s largest market for these treatments.

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s position that after six years without a substantive challenge to validity a patent owner rightfully forms a “settled expectation” that their asset is inter partes review-pr... (more story)

Microsoft told UK appeal judges on Tuesday that ValueLicensing would have no competition-law claim against the tech giant if its reselling of software licenses broke copyright rules. At the UK Court of Appeal,... (more story)

The Office of the US Trade Representative’s hearing Tuesday into forced labor allegations from 60 countries brought support to tackle a lingering global issue but also sparked worry over whether tariffs are th... (more story)

MLex summary: The office of the US Trade Representative said it is seeking comments by May 15 on modernizing the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which will lapse at the end of the year.

The Commerce Department must further explain or reconsider how it calculated data points it used to calculate the dumping margin for an Italian forged-steel fluid end block  producer, the US Court of Internati... (more story)

Rambus is the subject of a criminal antitrust investigation by the US Department of Justice and has been responding to federal grand jury subpoena as part of the probe, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday.

MLex Summary: An interoperability provision of the EU’s key digital gatekeepers law should be extended to social media, proposes a new report published on Tuesday by think tank Future of Tech Institute. The mo... (more story)

MLex Summary: Scrutinizing the cloud and AI sectors will be a priority for the European Commission as it applies the Digital Markets Act going forward, the EU executive said on Tuesday when publishing its firs... (more story)