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December 13, 2024 | Flavia Fortes and Khushita Vasant
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 13, 2024 | Ilana Kowarski and Alex Wilts
North America
Artificial Intelligence
December 13, 2024 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Antitrust View More
December 13, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Motions by Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. to dismiss an antitrust complaint from FuboTV were denied by a US judge today who ruled that the streaming service has plausibly alleged an unlawful tying claim as well ... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Alex Wilts
North America
OpenAI told a US judge today that the US Department of Justice will call Nicholas Turley, the head of product for the company’s generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, as a witness for the remedy p... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Constitutional litigation by Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm against the US Federal Trade Commission that seeks to prevent the agency from proceeding with an administrative merger trial is based on a mischaract... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 13, 2024 | Frank Hersey
Europe
An international consensus on AI governance is expected at the upcoming AI Action Summit to be held in France in February, according to a draft closing statement seen by MLex. A corresponding new global forum ... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms will be regulated under a revised directive agreed by the Council of the EU, expanding the definition of offenses and introducing stricter penalties for intentionally providing o... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Nick Robertson
North America
A copyright case in the US Western District of Texas claims Dell refused to pay license fees for artificial intelligence and data science management software by Anaconda. According to the lawsuit, thousands of... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Tempur Sealy International and Mattress Firm Group can’t seek a preliminary injunction against the US Federal trade Commission’s administrative proceeding regarding their proposed merger, the age... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Jean Comte
Europe
Banco BPM's news that it has secured clearance from the Italian competition authority to mount a bid to buy asset manager Anima advances the deal's prospects, but perhaps not nearly as far as the Italian bank ... (more story)
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Charter and Liberty Broadband will file their Hart-Scott-Rodino paperwork after June 30, 2026, so that the end of the initial waiting period is no earlier than one year prior to the targeted clos... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 13, 2024 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Social media giants will have to face claims that they designed their platforms to get kids hooked, as a California appellate court denied their bid to vacate a trial court judge’s ruling allowing negligence a... (more story)
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: TikTok lost its bid for a temporary injunction against the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that would require it to divest from Chinese ownership pending S... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Mike Swift
North America
Despite statements by state and federal regulators that the record health data breach of Change Healthcare this year that affected more than 100 million Americans was unprecedented in its scale and disruption,... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 13, 2024 | Melissa Ritti
North America
An ongoing royalty owed by Amazon to VB Assets was adjusted for inflation by a US judge in Delaware yesterday, who said in a post-verdict hypothetical negotiation “the parties would recognize and account for a... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Valeo Electrification's bid to extend the deadline for submitting its reply to the statement of defense, and defense to the counterclaim for revocation, has been rejected by the Unified Patent Co... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Microsoft's bid to reduce a 2 million-euro damages payment, claimed by a Finnish IP licensing firm in an infringement suit, has been rejected by the Unified Patent Court Paris Central Division. M... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: An immediate stay of an injunction blocking nationwide enforcement of the US Corporate Transparency Act is "warranted," the government told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in an eme... (more story)
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: C.H. Robinson International settled allegations of sanctions violations from the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, agreeing to pay about $257,000 to resolve civil liabili... (more story)
December 13, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Halkbank has asked an appellate court to stay its decision denying sovereign immunity under common law as it seeks relief from the US Supreme Court. The Turkish bank was charged with violating US... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Financial Conduct Authority has sent strategy letters to the chief executives of Britain's trading venues, benchmark administrators and contract for difference providers. The letters outline ... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial sector is being consulted on rules to establish a consistent, sufficient, and timely framework for reporting operational incidents and material third-party arrangements. "When op... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Crypto-assets are on the rise but remain very risky, the European Securities and Markets Authority said today in a statement. Noting that the value of some of those products significantly and sud... (more story)
Trade View More
December 13, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit remanded the Court of International Trade’s ruling regarding how the duty rate for Chinese and Thai cookware importer Meyer was calculated.
December 13, 2024 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
EU countervailing duties on Chinese battery electric vehicles are likely to be challenged at the bloc’s General Court by a group of Chinese electric vehicle makers represented by the China Chamber of Commerce ... (more story)
December 13, 2024 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
Chinese exports of valine, an essential nutrient, will face an EU dumping probe, MLex has learned. The European Commission is planning to open it next week.
State Aid View More
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Finnish economy will be eligible for direct grants to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and to invest in strategic equipment such as batteries or solar panels, under two national measures worth... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Lek Pharmaceuticals, a company of the Sandoz group, can receive around 52 million euros in Slovenian aid for the construction of a high-tech plant to produce biological drug substances for biosim... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Banks in Greece today saw the European Commission extend a “market conform asset protection program” until June 30, 2025, with an increased budget of 3 billion euros, the state aid regulator said... (more story)
Energy View More
December 12, 2024 | Stefano Porciello
Europe
German green-hydrogen production projects that made bids for subsidies under the first European Hydrogen Bank auction a year ago are barred from getting any of 350 million euros in national funds earmarked for... (more story)
December 12, 2024 | Stefano Porciello
Europe
Polluting and uncompetitive companies should see the EU clean industrial deal unlock resources and de-risk investments, increase renewable energy, propose targeted action for hard-to-abate sectors, and advance... (more story)
December 11, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The Biden administration's US Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the current Democratic majority at the Federal Trade Commission should not have revoked competitor collaboration guideli... (more story)
Technology View More
December 13, 2024 | Jakub Krupa
Europe
The UK government should see securing a positive EU adequacy renewal as an "imperative" for its digital policy planning for 2025 while also looking to take a lead in discussions on new data flows arrangements,... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission illegally used sensitive personal data to micro-target citizens with political ads on the social media platform X in 2023, the European Data Protection Supervisor found to... (more story)
December 13, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The initial passage of Malaysia's online safety bill by Malaysia's House of Representatives has been "strongly condemned" by a group of online safety advocates comprising 18 civil society organiz... (more story)