MLex Summary: The French competition authority disclosed the public version of its decision to impose a total €12.7 million fine on Synadis, a trade association of organic products stores, and on its members ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Consumer-electronics company HP Tronic has been fined more than 38 million Czech koruna (€1.5 million) for restricting competition in the household appliances sector. The company has set minimum ... (more story)

External legal advice to Mastercard suggested the company should frame termination rights around transaction targets rather than merchant “routing” in agreements, according to evidence aired in an ongoing Aust... (more story)

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld a ruling that an internally developed Excel-based accounting system belonged entirely to the employer that used it, rejecting arguments by the employee who built... (more story)

The 2026 US Trade Representative Special 301 Report has again placed India on the Priority Watch List, citing intellectual property concerns. However, lawyers say that India’s TRIPS-compliant policies, judicia... (more story)

As Congress mulls legislation reviving the China Initiative under a new name, a familiar question has reemerged: whether policies designed to protect US intellectual property threaten to erode the university r... (more story)

A second round of negotiations in Brussels on the implementation of the EU-US trade agreement concluded without a breakthrough on Wednesday night. Last week US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tarif... (more story)

China has activated its blocking mechanism for the first time, ordering companies not to comply with US Iran-related sanctions imposed on five Chinese refiners. The move marks the first public use of China’s 2... (more story)

Representatives from a variety of domestic industries ranging from video game consoles to cheese told US government officials that imposing tariffs through Section 301 for structural excess capacity would only... (more story)

EU lawmakers agreed on amendments to the bloc’s flagship AI law, including a new ban on AI-generated intimate content, a delay in applying rules to AI systems with high-risk use cases, and changes to how the r... (more story)

Age restrictions for online platforms are under discussion in EU political debates on child protection, a European Commission official said on Wednesday, though no decisions have been made. Recommendations fro... (more story)

Aylo will again allow unregistered UK users to access its adult-content platform Pornhub if they verify their age through Apple’s device-level checks, partially reversing restrictions introduced earlier this y... (more story)