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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
January 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust View More
January 16, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China's Supreme People's Court has rejected claims by eight textile and dyeing companies that their sole steam supplier abused its dominance through unfair pricing. The judges pointed out that abusive pricing ... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
LG Electronics won again in its long-running damages suit against Taiwanese LCD panel makers AUO, formerly AU Optronics, and HannStar Display, with an appeals court this week ordering the suppliers to pay abou... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation convened a meeting with major new-energy... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 16, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Adding to the global fallout from provocative deepfakes created with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, Japan issued its sternest warning yet, threatening “all possible measures” against his company X.
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong’s privacy regulator warned about risks linked to X’s AI chatbot Grok amid concerns that it can be used to generate indecent or malicious images and videos. The Office of the Privacy Com... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy met late Thursday with 10 organizations representing creators, copyright management and artificial intelligence ind... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corporation said in a statement Friday that it is entering the US shale gas sector after agreeing to pay $5.2 billion for all equity interests in Aethon III LLC,... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Automotive supplier American Axle & Manufacturing won conditional clearance in China on Friday to acquire UK rival Dowlais Group, after the State Administration for Market Regulation raised compe... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Boston Scientific Corp. said it will acquire Penumbra Inc. in a cash and stock deal with an enterprise value of approximately $14.5 billion. The merger gives Boston Scientific entry into new, fas... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs said on Friday that it had requested an official explanation from Meta Platforms about an alleged user data leak during the password rese... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Online recruitment platforms in China have been ordered to tighten oversight of job postings and strengthen content controls, underscoring Beijing’s push to protect job seekers as fraud risks rise amid a slowi... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Major social media companies removed access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children under 16 in the first half of December to comply with Australia’s social media minimu... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 16, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China consolidated its position as a global powerhouse in digital-economy innovation in 2024, an annual report from the country’s top intellectual property regulator shows.
January 16, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court overturned a patent office decision that upheld trademark protection for “Micro pig cafe,” ruling that the term had already become a descriptive label for animal interaction cafes by the ... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe, North America
January ushered in a flurry of dealmaking in the tech space, but the biggest moves of the new year thus far are being made in the fight against cancer.
Financial Crime View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Sanjay Kaushik, of India, was sentenced in the US to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to export controlled aviation components with dual civilian and military app... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Senator Tim Scott, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, deferred consideration of amendments to a draft bill that would create a regulatory edifice for cryptocurrencies, shortly after Coinbase CEO Brian Arms... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The French Senate on Wednesday passed a law granting stronger legal protections to in-house lawyers without amending the text adopted by the lower chamber, or National Assembly. The text is thus ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors will meet on Jan. 22 to consider amendments to its guidelines for appeals of material supervisory determinations.
January 15, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The biggest threat to European banks' competitiveness remains the fragmentation of the European market rather than the capital rules imposed by the bloc, said European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guind... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Veteran German center-right lawmaker Markus Ferber will lead talks in the European Parliament on the so-called “master regulation" section of a jumbo EU legislative package designed to better integrate and sup... (more story)
Trade View More
January 16, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China and Canada issued a joint statement on Friday following a meeting of their respective leaders in which they agreed to strengthen their bilateral economic and trade partnership and welcomed ... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of fused alumina from China into the European Union will be subject to definitive dumping duties of up to 110.6 percent, the European Commission said Friday. In July, the EU trade regula... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade said the country’s cold-rolled stainless steel flat exports to Turkey have been freed from the risk of trade remedies after Turkish authorities terminated an 18-mont... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Funding made by Durham County Council — a city in northern England — over tourist attractions has been challenged under UK subsidy rules, according to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The appella... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to spend €200 million to support the generation of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives in Canada has secured EU state aid approval, the European Commission said Thursday. The re... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released its 2025 State Aid Scoreboard, showing that in 2024, EU countries spent 90 percent of their state funds on backing key EU priorities. More funds were channele... (more story)
Energy View More
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division secured victory against a Florida business owner who was found guilty of 34 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and forgery by a federal jury in Miami, MLex has learned.
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of US lawmakers released legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate to secure American access to critical minerals. The Securing Essential and Critical US Resou... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US signed a trade agreement which includes commitments by Taiwanese semiconductor enterprises to... (more story)
Technology View More
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK developers of robotics and defense technology now have a new way to flag regulatory barriers, as the government’s Regulatory Innovation Office opens Front Door, an experimental process for col... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s internet regulator and industry ministry on Friday published enforcement cases involving online misconduct in the auto sector following a recent cleanup campaign. In a statement, the auth... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Asia
MLex summary: The Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology on Friday said it is monitoring international action against Grok AI over its alleged misuse to generate non-consensual and ... (more story)