MLex Summary: Unnamed construction companies in Switzerland have lost a legal challenge to fines levied for illegal agreements during public tenders in Unterengadin, in the east of the country. Switzerland's F... (more story)

MLex Summary: Austria’s competition authority has introduced a new tool to make it easier and more transparent to identify current price trends at Austrian gas stations. Regular monitoring of fuel prices will ... (more story)

Mastercard's expert witnesses challenged the reliability of Australian central bank consumer payments surveys used as evidence against the company, telling a Federal Court hearing on Wednesday that the unavail... (more story)

Japan’s IP High Court upheld the patent office’s decision to reject a refrigerant patent application by US chemical company Chemours, finding that the divisional filing claimed a broader chemical composition t... (more story)

China’s top court has upheld a ruling that patent-infringement claims against robotics pioneer Unitree Robotics amounted to “malicious litigation,” in a decision underscoring stronger judicial scrutiny of abus... (more story)

The California attorney general’s office at a US appeals court on Tuesday defended a state law targeting settlements in which a brand-name drug manufacturer pays a generic drug company to delay cheaper competi... (more story)

Brussels will take measures if the US does not accept the changes on the EU side to the EU-US joint statement sealed Tuesday night, German lawmaker Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament’s internati... (more story)

Discussion of chip export controls was notably absent from the recent Trump-Xi summit, reflecting in part Beijing’s reduced urgency to secure relief from US curbs as China accelerates its push for technologica... (more story)

MLex Summary: China and Russia agreed to extend the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation and pledged to deepen trade and energy ties, after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russi... (more story)

MLex Summary: Big digital platforms and national representatives that oversee the EU’s digital services law have discussed the first requests from researchers to access data from the platforms at a European Co... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta was sent a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday by Dutch civil rights organizations over deleted Instagram accounts, specifically from the LGBTQ+ community. The tech giant repeatedly removed... (more story)

MLex Summary: Romanian telecom authority Ancom has laid down new obligations for provider DIGI Romania on Tuesday, aiming to stimulate competition and consumer choice. Following investigation by both national ... (more story)