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Artificial Intelligence

April 09, 2026 | Mike Swift

North America

Anthropic loses bid for emergency stay of US supply chain designation
Meta and US Federal Trade Commission.

Data Privacy and Security

April 08, 2026 | Xu Yuan and Mike Swift

North America

US FTC fights Meta’s fresh attempt to stop reopening of $5bn privacy settlement

Trade

April 08, 2026 | Bradley Dress and Eliana Hubacker

North America

Revised US Section 232 duties simplify tariff system but likely raise costs

Antitrust View More

Advocates push for SEP policy in White House manufacturing plan

April 09, 2026 | Nick Robertson

North America

Standard-essential patent implementors and their industry group advocates are pushing the White House to address SEP policy in the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Strategic Plan for Advanced... (more story)

Nexstar, Tegna spar with merger challengers over content of potential injunction

April 09, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

TV channel operators Nexstar Media Group and Tegna, Inc. — which technically closed their merger before their business integration was halted by a temporary restraining order — are fighting efforts by deal opp... (more story)

Berkshire Hathaway Energy denied judgment on home sellers' US antitrust claims

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Berkshire Hathaway Energy cannot rely on a settlement entered into by its subsidiary HomeServices of America to avoid US antitrust claims brought by home sellers, a Missouri federal judge ruled. ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

With ROSS, Westlaw hearing on the horizon, fair use ruling draws attention

April 09, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

ROSS Intelligence is feeling buoyed by a new precedential holding that online publication of standards incorporated in the International Building Code is sufficiently transformative to excuse admitted copying.... (more story)

Watchdogs issued €1.15bn in fines in 2025, European Data Protection Board report says

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: National data protection watchdogs issued a total of €1.15 billion in fines in 2025, the European Data Protection Board said in its annual report, published on Thursday. The European umbrella aut... (more story)

AI model providers' outdated regulatory threshold a looming test for EU's AI Act

April 09, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi

Europe

EU rules on general-purpose AI models risk relying on an outdated compute threshold from 2023, with tens of models expected to surpass it in coming months. Despite experts and EU governments having urged an up... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Fired US FTC commissioners should be at oversight hearing, Sen. Cantwell says

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Maria Cantwell wrote to Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz calling on him to invite the fired Federal Trade Commission members Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya to testify at the FTC ... (more story)

Nexstar, Tegna urge court to allow cost-saving measures planned before merger

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Local TV news broadcasters Nexstar Media and Tegna — which have been enjoined from integrating their business operations post-merger via a temporary restraining order — have asked a US court to p... (more story)

DirecTV, states request court ban on Nexstar-Tegna joint bargaining on fees

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: DirecTV and various US states, all of whom seek an unwinding of local TV news channel operator Nexstar Media's recently closed merger with rival Tegna, have asked a US court to impose a prelimina... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

New Mexico AG praises decision for quick bench trial against Meta

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez praised Judge Bryan Biedscheid's denial of Meta Platform's motion to postpone the bench trial in the state's consumer protection lawsuit. The bench trial i... (more story)

Meta knew it was collecting Facebook users' data, US plaintiffs argue

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms knew or was willfully blind to the fact it was collecting sensitive data from Facebook users without permission, plaintiffs told a US federal judge. Plaintiffs opposed a motion to ... (more story)

Us Senate Judiciary Chair Grassley questions tech companies on CSAM reporting

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, sent letters to eight tech companies, including Meta Platforms, X.AI, Grindr, and Amazon AI Services, asking about their child... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

This week at the UPC: April 3-9

April 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Anna Lauwereys

Europe

The Unified Patent Court this week granted Dyson’s preliminary injunction in a hair styler patent dispute against Dreame that stopped short of the UK, and ordered Suinno to provide security for costs after Mic... (more story)

Chinese court clarifies role of product classification in trademark similarity test

April 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Product classification alone is not determinative in assessing trademark similarity, a Chinese court has ruled, saying judges must also consider how closely goods align in function, target consumers and usage ... (more story)

Japan's 3D trademark law still stops short of the house itself

April 09, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has offered a sharp reminder that, even after Japan opened trademark law to three-dimensional signs, the path from distinctive design to protectable branding remains narrow.

Financial Crime View More

Former Mongolian premier asks to intervene in US forfeiture case over apartments

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Former Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold wants to intervene in a US government effort to seize two Manhattan apartments prosecutors say were purchased using siphoned state assets, alleg... (more story)

PwC faces UK audit probe over Digital 9 work

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: PricewaterhouseCoopers faces an investigation over its audit of Digital 9 Infrastructure, the wound-down investment company. The UK's Financial Reporting Council said it would look at the account... (more story)

UK enforcers team up with US, Canada to freeze $12m from crypto scams

April 09, 2026

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: An international operation targeting cryptocurrency and investment scammers, spearheaded by the UK National Crime Agency, has led to the freezing of more than $12 million and the identification o... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US CFTC seeks injunction to stop Arizona enforcement against prediction markets

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona for a preliminary injunction to halt Arizona's efforts to apply state criminal and gambling law... (more story)

EU securitization lead lawmaker proposes draft compromise on capital rules

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: A new draft compromise on a revamped EU securitization framework has been put forward by the lead negotiator on the file in the European Parliament earlier this month. Ralf Seekatz's document, ob... (more story)

New EU securitization revamp compromise to be discussed by lawmakers

April 09, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

Talks on a revamped EU securitization framework have progressed among EU lawmakers, with a new draft compromise put forward and due to be discussed on April 14 that softens his initial ambitions to loosen capi... (more story)

Trade View More

Chinese steel fencing injures US industry, USITC finds

April 09, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission ruled that dumped and subsidized imports of Chinese temporary steel fencing materially injure US industry. The Department of Commerce will impose antidumping... (more story)

USITC votes to continue investigations into Chinese, Indian electrodes

April 09, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that US industry is materially injured by imports of large diameter graphite electrodes from China and India. The Department of Commerce will cont... (more story)

US CIT upholds Commerce Japan steel order

April 09, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday sustained the Commerce Department’s 2021 review of an antidumping order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan, ruling that Japanese laws do not prevent t... (more story)

State Aid View More

Camgraphic can have €211m in Italian aid for chip development, EU watchdog says

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Italian company Camgraphic can have a direct grant worth €211 million to back the development of photonic chips which can be used in aerospace and defense, automotive or telecoms, the European Co... (more story)

China asset regulator sets up bureau to oversee foreign state-owned assets

April 09, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has set up a new bureau to oversee foreign state-owned assets, state media Xinhua reported Wednesday. The new department will ... (more story)

Welsh government airport subsidy appeal challenge dismissed by UK tribunal

April 08, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Bristol Airport's appeal of a decision of the Welsh Government to grant a subsidy package to Cardiff International Airport has been dismissed by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Bristol Airport a... (more story)

Energy View More

EU considers methane rules flexibility as industry points to penalty risks

April 09, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

"Flexibilities" will soon be presented to reduce penalty risks under the EU methane regulation, particularly to avoid supply disruptions, the European Commission said. Companies have warned of tight timelines ... (more story)

Feedback sought for EU energy watchdog performance review

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback for a review it is conducting of the EU’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, or ACER, assessing whether it meets its objectives, mandate ... (more story)

New EU energy market rules to improve transparency, oversight formally published

April 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: New rules clarifying how organizations that report energy market data are approved and supervised, as well as an update as to how such data is submitted to regulators, were published Thursday in ... (more story)

Technology View More

UK online safety enforcement being delayed and mishandled, campaigner Kidron says

April 09, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

UK regulators' handling of children’s data and enforcement of the Online Safety Act deserves criticism, prominent UK lawmaker Beeban Kidron has said, while warning of a government push for overly broad legisla... (more story)

Greece joins France in call for EU-wide action on underage social media use

April 09, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Greece plans to ban social media use for under-15s by 2027, joining France and other EU member states in increasing pressure on the EU to adopt a bloc-wide approach. In response, the European Commission signal... (more story)

Meta and Google examined in Indonesia over alleged violations of child protection rules

April 09, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms and Google, the parent company of YouTube, are being examined by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs over their compliance with child-protection regulation... (more story)