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Illumina on Friday defended the volume discounts in its customer contracts as it sought dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit accusing the DNA sequencing company of waging a campaign to stifle competition.

Brazil's economic reform agency is proud of its regulatory and competition review program but frustrated that it hasn't delivered recommendations at the intended pace, officials said Friday.

Brazil’s competition authority should look beyond explicit pricing conduct and examine platform design when investigating possible exploitative abuses in digital markets, an authority official said, and dependency between ...(read more)

As chip designer Arm Holdings chips away at a potential multibillion-dollar remedy for breaching its architecture license agreement with Qualcomm, it asked a Delaware federal judge this week to vacate an adverse jury verdi...(read more)

A California state court judge has rejected Via Licensing Alliance’s attempt to use a transferred audio patent license to demand payment for HP Inc.’s earlier product sales, finding that the agreement excluded those obliga...(read more)

The legality of reselling pre-owned Windows and Office licenses could reach the UK’s highest court, following this week’s application by Microsoft for permission to appeal. The US software giant lost its copyright and juri...(read more)

Security-scanner maker Nuctech will learn on Dec. 9 whether it has successfully challenged a European Commission move to raid its premises in Poland and the Netherlands as part of an investigation into potentially distorti...(read more)

MLex Summary: US importer Freestyle World, Inc., filed a motion for all importers who paid now-illegal tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to be eligible for refunds through US Customs and Bo...(read more)

Europe could face gas storage shortages before the 2027-28 winter if stocks become too depleted this winter, the industry association that coordinates the region's gas supplies has warned. ENTSOG said on Friday that limite...(read more)

MLex Summary: Epic Games told the US Supreme Court that Apple acted in bad faith both in scheming to evade an injunction and in attempting to cover up that scheme as found by a California district court and affirmed by a c...(read more)

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights should be updated to protect personal identity and likeness from AI deepfakes and guard against algorithmic discrimination, EU lawmakers have said. A resolution adopted on Thursday come...(read more)

MLex Summary: Age checks under the proposed EU Kids Act should be necessary and proportionate, with lawmakers considering where safety by design could protect all users instead, the European Data Protection Supervisor has ...(read more)