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Saras and Tamoil to appeal Italian court rulings in biofuel cartel May 22, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Oil companies Saras and Tamoil will appeal to Italy’s highest administrative court against lower-court rulings largely upholding antitrust fines against the companies for taking part in a biofuel cartel, MLex ... (more story)

Mastercard Australian antitrust trial hears economists clash on market definition May 22, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Economists for Mastercard and Australia’s competition regulator clashed in court Friday over how to define markets in modern payments systems, as an antitrust trial over alleged misuse of market power continue... (more story)

Apple, Google Australia class action expansion delayed over potential appeals May 22, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

An Australian judge has ordered the delay of any expansion of the Australian class actions against Apple and Google over app-store commissions, putting the proposed new claims and group members on hold while a... (more story)

Indonesia antitrust regulator defends online lending cartel ruling against appeals May 22, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan

Indonesia’s competition regulator has urged a Jakarta court to reject appeals filed by 87 online lenders against its record interest-rate cartel ruling. The regulator argued that the lenders cannot rely on all... (more story)

China's top court rejects double-punishment claim over concrete-cartel fine May 22, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s Supreme People’s Court upheld an antitrust fine against a Hangzhou concrete producer, rejecting the company’s argument that earlier criminal penalties in a related forced-transaction barred separate ad... (more story)

Evergreen challenges South Korea's cartel claims as court seeks company-specific proof May 22, 2026 | Jenny Lee

Evergreen Marine challenged South Korea’s antitrust regulator at a remand hearing on Thursday to show concrete evidence that the carrier itself joined a long-running shipping cartel, as appellate judges repeat... (more story)

Ticketmaster must be divested to remedy monopoly, states tell US court May 22, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

Live Nation should be ordered to divest its wholly owned subsidiary Ticketmaster so that competition can be restored for primary ticketing contracts with major concert venues, 33 states and the District of Col... (more story)

Apple seeks US Supreme Court review of Epic Games injunction fight May 21, 2026 | Alex Wilts

Apple is urging the US Supreme Court to review its dispute with Epic Games, saying the case raises important questions about civil contempt standards and courts’ power to issue universal injunctions, according... (more story)

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US FTC scrutiny reduced Orange Book protections for 19 drugs, study finds May 21, 2026 | Nick Robertson

Requests by the Federal Trade Commission to delist over 400 medical device patents from the Food and Drug Administration’s Orange Book are set to shorten the period during which listed patents may delay generi... (more story)

Minority-stake talks gets fresh warning in EU move against turf cartel May 21, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

Companies eyeing stakes in rivals got another reminder from the EU’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday, with two synthetic turf producers suspected of coordinating their conduct via such talks — even when their c... (more story)

French Apple ruling highlights debate over 'abuse of economic dependency' rule May 20, 2026 | Jean Comte

A decision by France's top court against Apple has highlighted a rarely used antitrust rule on the abuse of economic dependence that some European regulators have asked the European Commission not to scrap. Th... (more story)

Amazon challenges Calif.'s 'belated attempt' to change litigation theory May 19, 2026 | Alex Wilts

Amazon’s pushback against the California attorney general’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt alleged price-fixing highlights a key question in a case between the two sides: whether the state is reca... (more story)

Following OpenAI win over Musk, doubts remain about US antitrust claims May 18, 2026 | Mike Swift

After a federal jury in California handed down a unanimous verdict saying Elon Musk's charitable breach claims against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman were barred by the statute of limitations, the attention of ... (more story)

Former USPTO heads part ways on eBay, PAEs in inputs to European Commission May 15, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Former US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal on Tuesday broke with the pro-injunction stance taken by fellow former agency heads Andrei Iancu and David Kappos in lobbying directed at the European... (more story)

Ticket sellers laud EU focus on ‘fair’ conditions in rail-operator contracts May 15, 2026 | Jean Comte

EU plans to ensure train operators give online ticketing sites such as Omio and Trainline a fairer deal could help tackle a long-running area of antitrust friction in the European rail market. But train operat... (more story)

France’s ‘legal privilege’ law sets up clash with competition enforcement May 15, 2026 | Jean Comte

A new French law that grants confidentiality to certain documents drafted by in-house lawyers is out of favor with the national competition authority over an apparent conflict with EU law — and the regulator s... (more story)