Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Japan's proposed food consumption-tax cut could raise questions under antitrust law over price negotiations between retailers and suppliers, particularly if buyers seek lower prices without considering supplie... (more story)

MLex Summary: Oregon business owner Ilya Zagaryuk pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in an kickback scheme that inflated maintenance contracts with the US Postal Service, according to a DOJ statement and ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Cangrejeros de Santurce baseball team and former owner Thomas Axon moved for judgment in a US case accusing Liga de Béisbol Profesional de Puerto Rico and its member clubs of conspiring to bo... (more story)

The Unified Patent Court on Tuesday granted Versuni a preliminary injunction against sales of Dreame’s electric “Mira Mop” in Germany, France and the Netherlands, with the Hague local division finding a risk o... (more story)

Patent office leaders from the US, Spain and Denmark were in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to celebrate the removal of Argentine patent regulations that limited the patent eligibility and patentability of follow-on ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Copyright Alliance is criticizing Meta Platforms' proposed terms-of-service update, saying it will allow the company to scrape commercial account holders' content for business purposes, inclu... (more story)

Extreme Networks settled US investigations into sales of its equipment and services to a blacklisted Russian weapons manufacturer in what prosecutors said was the first agreement in a “near-miss” case under th... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and antisubsidy duties on van-type trailers from China. Commerce said all Chinese producers have a 130.86 percent dumping rate and a 134.75 percent subsidy rate.

The EU and Canada are expected to agree a new deal that would improve cooperation between their competition agencies. The two sides will meet this week at a summit in Montreal that's set to deepen relations re... (more story)

MLex Summary: Social media platforms would receive notices from Frontex about illegal content linked to border security risks under a European Commission proposal presented Tuesday, with the agency potentially... (more story)

Meta Platforms’ obligations over user-generated content were at the heart of questions sent by senior German judges to the EU Court of Justice on Tuesday, setting up a closely watched test of social networks’ ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ obligations over falsely attributed quotes on Facebook are at issue in questions referred to the EU Court of Justice by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday. The question... (more story)