Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday that its monitoring panel had published its 2026 findings on transparency and fairness at online marketplaces and digital advertising platforms, ...(read more)

Apple and the US Department of Justice, as well as several state attorneys general and private plaintiffs suing the iPhone maker over alleged antitrust violations, were put on notice over discovery delays by a US magistrat...(read more)

A federal judge denied a request from fragrance manufacturers Symrise, Givaudan and Firmenich for judgment against US price-fixing claims brought by various purchasers, rejecting arguments that a supposedly hybrid relation...(read more)

A UK High Court judge has restricted the expansion of Aviator LLC’s gambling game in Colombia, Romania and Serbia while preserving its availability on existing platforms. Friday’s ruling seeks to balance the risk of what h...(read more)

Broadcast Music, Inc. and Sirius XM must push a January 2027 antitrust trial date to June due to the collapse of law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York federal judge said Monday.

Recent progress on reducing the patent application backlog at the US Patent and Trademark Office has resulted in increased workloads that may have also caused an increasing number of examiners to leave, putting the long-te...(read more)

MLex Summary: UK ministers are in Brussels on Tuesday to push for progress on agrifood trade, emissions trading and the EU’s “Made in Europe” agenda ahead of the Nov. 20 UK-EU summit. Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan ...(read more)

Online safety protections aren’t up for negotiation in trade talks with the US, the UK government said in a statement on Monday, while stopping short of pledging to preserve its freedom to regulate AI. It pointed instead t...(read more)

MLex Summary: The American Personal Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Coalition appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to contest the Court of International Trade's denial of the coalition's request...(read more)

MLex Summary: Digital businesses would face new rules on addictive design, dark patterns, influencer marketing and personalized pricing under a draft EU Digital Fairness Act. The proposal, scheduled for presentation on Wed...(read more)

Digital businesses would have to let consumers switch off features encouraging compulsive or excessive use and obtain their explicit agreement before free trials become paid subscriptions, under a leaked draft of the EU Di...(read more)

MLex Summary: Proposed changes to EU roaming rules could raise domestic mobile prices and weaken network investment, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications warned. Responding to the European Parliame...(read more)