MLex Summary: Consumer representative Ius Omnibus will maintain its damages claim against supermarkets and a beverage supplier, Active Brands, despite the latter's recent court victory against Portugal's compe... (more story)

A Chinese supermarket suppliers’ group has warned that accelerating consolidation among fresh-grocery front-warehouse operators could give large, capital-backed platforms greater influence over pricing and sup... (more story)

MLex Summary: Vietnam has released draft amendments to Decree 35, which implements parts of the country’s Competition Law, for public consultation until Aug. 15, according to a statement Friday by the Vietnam ... (more story)

UK organic food producer Windmill Organics has failed to invalidate rival Venture Foods’ trademark for its Geo Organics line of products. The UK Intellectual Property Office ruled that there was no likelihood ... (more story)

China’s top intellectual property regulator rejected a patent application that relied on an artificial intelligence chatbot response to support its inventive-step arguments, clarifying how AI output should be ... (more story)

An Indian high court ruling draws a distinction between accessing licensed content and commercially exploiting it. The Calcutta High Court order, while limited to a single hotel, could potentially require hote... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Commerce Department’s updated separate rate calculation for Chinese multilayered wood flooring exporters, finding that the appellants had forfeited th... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower trade court ruling affirming a Commerce Department order declaring certain refractory bricks containing alumina aren't within the scope of antidum... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Court of International Trade’s order setting antidumping duties for Chinese multilayered wood flooring.

A former Meta Platforms researcher accused the company of unethically suppressing and interfering with internal research related to user experience, a jury in Tennessee heard in the ongoing trial of the US sta... (more story)

Years before TikTok was sued on addictive design claims, employees voiced worries about the many children under age 13 on the platform, and whether the company could be liable for inappropriate conduct, accord... (more story)

MLex Summary: A federal appeals court has dismissed appeals by Meta Platforms and TikTok for district court rulings about the limits of the companies' legal immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Dec... (more story)