Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Japanese condominium owners' associations have sought advice on claiming damages following a bid-rigging case involving major repair work, highlighting the challenges of recovering losses from collusion. Lawyers say contra...(read more)

Diogo Thomson de Andrade, Brazil’s interim antitrust chief, said that CADE has plenty of work to do from 2027 onward, regardless of potential political turmoil. The authority’s main priority is the approval of a digital ma...(read more)

The Brazilian competition authority used 2026 to preserve institutional continuity and advance initiatives that were already sufficiently developed while preparing for challenges involving digital markets, staffing, budget...(read more)

India’s push for dedicated IP courts could widen access to expertise, but without trained benches, adequate resources and clearer jurisdiction rules, businesses risk facing familiar delays in newly designated forums.

Administrative patent judges will soon regain their authority to decide which patent challenges are worthy of advancing to a determination of their merits, the US Patent and Trademark Office announced late Tuesday. Directo...(read more)

Stability AI challenged Getty Images' UK copyright appeal with a cake analogy on Wednesday, comparing Getty's argument to treating a cake as an “infringing copy” of a recipe because the chef had photographed it before baki...(read more)

Compromises reportedly have yet to be agreed on the main political questions in the European Parliament's review of the proposed EU Industrial Accelerator Act, despite a Dec. 1 committee vote now only three weeks away. Ger...(read more)

MLex Summary: Businesses selling goods in Northern Ireland will face the EU’s ban on products made with forced labor from Dec. 14, 2027 after EU and UK officials agreed to add the regulation to the Windsor Framework. The d...(read more)

China's trade surplus surpassed $1 trillion for a second consecutive year in the first 10 months of 2026, adding to trade tensions with the US and EU. The widening imbalance comes ahead of further US-China trade talks. Bes...(read more)

All online platforms will have to let consumers disable addictive features under the proposed EU Digital Fairness Act — duties that the largest platforms will have to add to their existing Digital Services Act risk obligat...(read more)

MLex Summary: Tech industry groups have warned that the EU Digital Fairness Act put forward by the European Commission on Wednesday would add complexity to existing consumer and digital rules. The European Tech Alliance, C...(read more)

A draft report by two EU lawmakers on Europe's sovereign cloud regulation aims to tackle the main obstacles to boosting the AI and cloud sector, including streamlining approval procedures and addressing energy constraints....(read more)