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Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major ... (more story)

Consumers who want to unwind the Alaska-Hawaiian Airlines merger have returned to court with an amended lawsuit, telling the judge who rejected their prior effort to block the merger that they have ample proof... (more story)

The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boycott — a challenge that is expected to see simi... (more story)

Dr. Reddy’s won permission to export semaglutide after an Indian court found that the domestic pharma company had raised a credible challenge to Novo Nordisk’s patent. However, the Delhi High Court barred dome... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office made strides this year in its effort to lessen the wait for a trademark registration, mirroring hard-fought reductions in patent pendency. With plans to boost its trademark w... (more story)

In comments responding to a proposed overhaul of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, major IP policy groups and other stakeholders were divided over the impact of making inter partes review more difficult to ac... (more story)

The upcoming review process for the trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada affords a major opportunity to address a host of concerns in the deal, even if it has been mostly successful, a ... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection has finalized modified duty rates for country-specific tariffs for South Korean timber, lumber and their derivatives, as well as certain aircraft and aircraft parts.

US officials and their Indian counterparts anticipate the announcement of a trade agreement framework by the end of the year, but negotiations on outstanding issues like defense deals and India’s importation o... (more story)

Social media platform X Corp. and Australia’s online-safety regulator will move to the general discovery phase before filing further evidence in a civil-penalty case tied to a reporting-notice dispute, a court... (more story)

MLex Summary: Litigation against Match Group over the alleged addictive design of dating apps has been terminated after a federal judge in San Francisco last year ruled that the claims would be decided through... (more story)

Media companies will see the first formal signs of the EU’s new media-plurality test for mergers next year, when the European Media Board says it expects to issue its first opinions. The European commission gu... (more story)