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MLex Summary: Thirteen member states have called on the EU to step up its push to simplify European law. In a note circulated in Brussels and obtained by MLex, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Hung... (more story)

EU judges are set to give more clarity on whether a competition authority can seize work emails after a Portuguese court sent a new batch of questions to the EU's top court, MLex has learned. Those new request... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meal voucher provider Edenred has offered commitments to settle an Italian dominance-abuse probe. The proposals would give retailers greater choice over voucher acceptance systems, reduce the fee... (more story)

Honeywell has secured a Unified Patent Court injunction against VeyorEx and related companies in Germany, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Latvia and Italy, after judges rejected a disputed-license defense an... (more story)

China’s top court has highlighted a ruling that protects the title of hit crime drama The Knockout as a commercial identifier, signaling that widely recognized television titles can be shielded from copycat ma... (more story)

Via LA has launched its DRAM data center patent pool with three of the field’s top 15 largest patent holders and is negotiating with most of the rest, President Kevin Mack told MLex. A second group of new memb... (more story)

EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič will not travel to Manila as planned to wrap up the EU-Philippines trade deal, but political talks by video conference will continue, with both sides aiming to “make substantial p... (more story)

MLex Summary: New EU customs rules adopted by EU lawmakers last week have passed into law after being released in the EU’s official bulletin. The new law will make non-EU e-commerce platforms responsible for c... (more story)

MLex Summary: Chinese company Suzhou Carrey Intelligent Manufacturing will be subject to a 39.6* percent EU dumping duty on its exports of iron or steel fasteners, the European Commission said Monday, after ac... (more story)

Meta faces a complaint from Dutch advocacy group What to Fix over Facebook’s alleged failure to enforce monetization rules and provide effective systems for reporting potentially illegal monetization. The grou... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta has been targeted in a complaint by digital-accountability group What To Fix. The group's filing to the Netherlands’ consumer and markets regulator, or ACM, alleges that Meta violated the EU... (more story)

Fines may not be "appropriate" where enforcers are trying to "change market equilibrium" rather than sanction past breaches, UK judge Ian Forrester said. The jurist, who previously served as a UK judge at the ... (more story)