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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
January 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust View More
January 16, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Apple’s legal challenge to India’s global turnover-based penalty regime has drawn a firm defense from the head of the domestic antitrust authority. Competition Commission of India Chairperson Ravneet Kaur said... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies on Friday saw Greece's antitrust enforcer issue a practical guide explaining what resale price maintenance means, when and why it is prohibited, and how it is addressed under competitio... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China's Supreme People's Court has rejected claims by eight textile and dyeing companies that their sole steam supplier abused its dominance through unfair pricing. The judges pointed out that abusive pricing ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 16, 2026
Latin America
MLex Summary: Lawmakers from the Workers’ Party (PT) filed a complaint with the Federal Prosecution Office in the Federal District requesting the opening of an investigation into X’s Grok AI chatbot over the d... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo, Henrique Santiago and Sara Brandstätter
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
The outcry over the use of X’s Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes has provided a global stress-test of online safety laws and highlighted how national legal frameworks are shaping different approaches... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Green lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky criticized the European Commission for failing to act decisively against X’s AI chatbot Grok after it was used to generate non-consensual sexual images. He urged temporary susp... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 16, 2026 | Claude Marx
Europe, North America
When President Donald Trump promised to get involved in reviewing the sale of Warner Brothers Discovery, he was echoing the practice of some previous chief executives who played a role in the outcome of antitr... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A global association of independent music companies has written to the European Commission, warning that remedies Universal Music Group has offered over its Downtown takeover “will not mitigate t... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
South African retail group Mr Price has sought EU foreign subsidy clearance for its plan to buy European rival NKD, according to an update by the European Commission. The regulator has set a Feb. 19 deadline t... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: TikTok said it will roll out enhanced underage-detection technology in Europe in the coming weeks as part of its age assurance approach, using on-platform signals and specialist human review foll... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Single Resolution Board — the EU's banking crisis-management authority — has dropped an appeal at an EU court against a decision by the bloc’s privacy watchdog that it must inform citizens about data proce... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has published a policy paper setting out how its new Software Security Ambassadors Scheme will operate, detailing the commitments that companies will make to promote secure soft... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 16, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
As fewer patent challengers look to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the inter partes review (IPR) procedure, more are instead petitioning for ex parte reexamination. That brings its own strategic advanta... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China consolidated its position as a global powerhouse in digital-economy innovation in 2024, an annual report from the country’s top intellectual property regulator shows.
January 16, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court overturned a patent office decision that upheld trademark protection for “Micro pig cafe,” ruling that the term had already become a descriptive label for animal interaction cafes by the ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 16, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Russel Gerrity, a consultant who worked on a Chariot Oil & Gas project, has been fined almost £310,000 for insider trading by the UK’s financial regulator. The experienced oil professional used inside informat... (more story)
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating 21 individuals and entities and identifying one vessel that have transferred oil products, procured weapons and dual-use e... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Two former directors of Ethical Forestry who defrauded investors in a Costa Rica-focused investment scheme to support lavish lifestyles, could face up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a count of ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. and New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie announced the introduction of the CRYPTO Act to create a new law that makes operating a virtual currency b... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors will meet on Jan. 22 to consider amendments to its guidelines for appeals of material supervisory determinations.
January 15, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Senator Tim Scott, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, deferred consideration of amendments to a draft bill that would create a regulatory edifice for cryptocurrencies, shortly after Coinbase CEO Brian Arms... (more story)
Trade View More
January 16, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on any countries that opposed his push to seize Greenland, a semi-autonomous Arctic island overseen by Denmark that his administration has increasi... (more story)
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney published the details of a trade agreement with China, which includes Beijing lowering tariffs on Canadian canola seed to 15 percent starting Mar... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China and Canada issued a joint statement on Friday following a meeting of their respective leaders in which they agreed to strengthen their bilateral economic and trade partnership and welcomed ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Funding made by Durham County Council — a city in northern England — over tourist attractions has been challenged under UK subsidy rules, according to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The appella... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to spend €200 million to support the generation of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives in Canada has secured EU state aid approval, the European Commission said Thursday. The re... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released its 2025 State Aid Scoreboard, showing that in 2024, EU countries spent 90 percent of their state funds on backing key EU priorities. More funds were channele... (more story)
Energy View More
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division secured victory against a Florida business owner who was found guilty of 34 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and forgery by a federal jury in Miami, MLex has learned.
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of US lawmakers released legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate to secure American access to critical minerals. The Securing Essential and Critical US Resou... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US signed a trade agreement which includes commitments by Taiwanese semiconductor enterprises to... (more story)
Technology View More
January 16, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission plans to expand EU cybersecurity certification schemes to cover companies’ overall risk-management posture, under a revised Cybersecurity Act due on Jan. 20. Draft rules would use certi... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK developers of robotics and defense technology now have a new way to flag regulatory barriers, as the government’s Regulatory Innovation Office opens Front Door, an experimental process for col... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Adding to the global fallout from provocative deepfakes created with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, Japan issued its sternest warning yet, threatening “all possible measures” against his company X.