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Trade
December 03, 2024 | Jet Damazo-Santos
Asia
Antitrust, Intellectual Property
December 03, 2024 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
Antitrust
December 03, 2024 | Chris May
North America
Antitrust View More
December 04, 2024 | Hiroki Yajima
Asia
The Japan Fair Trade Commission has launched a special website to gather information and opinions from third-party sellers on Amazon Japan’s marketplace regarding the e-commerce giant’s suspected violations of... (more story)
December 04, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japan Fair Trade Commission has secured 1.6 billion yen in a supplementary budget for the current fiscal year, part of which includes funding to host a global forum to effectively implement t... (more story)
December 04, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
China's Supreme Court will hear Jianxin Cloud's appeal this week, challenging a lower court's dismissal of its antitrust lawsuit against Shenzhen Exchange Group, Glodon and two other competitors. The hearing w... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 03, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The Democratic Party of Korea has issued a statement demanding South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's immediate resignation following his brief declaration of martial law last night. The party's ... (more story)
December 03, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Microsoft has asked the US Federal Trade Commission's Office of Inspector General to investigate whether FTC management improperly leaked confidential information to the press about an investigat... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Emma Whitford
North America
California company IntelliVision Technologies Corp. would be barred from misrepresenting the accuracy of its facial recognition technology under a proposed settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission announced today.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 04, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates government, has received clearance from the Indian antitrust watchdog to acquire a minority shareholding in... (more story)
December 03, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Korean Air has announced plans to complete its long-awaited acquisition of Asiana Airlines on Dec. 11, marking the final phase of a merger process that began in 2020. Through a 1.5 trillion won (... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Flavia Fortes
North America
VitalCaring, the proposed buyer of assets to be divested by UnitedHealth and Amedisys for the approval of their deal, received an unfavorable ruling in Delaware Chancery Court that could impact its viability a... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 03, 2024 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian Supreme Court's pending decision on the constitutionality of Article 19 of the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet will have far-reaching consequences for digital platforms. If the law, which... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Madeline Hughes
North America
As TikTok starts its fight against more than a dozen state attorneys general alleging it violated consumer protection laws to addict children to its platform for financial gain, its defenses in early motion to... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Xu Yuan
North America
Data brokers Mobilewalla and Gravy Analytics will be prohibited from using and selling personal data associated with sensitive locations, such as medical facilities, religious venues and labor union offices, i... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 04, 2024 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court sided with the patent office in upholding the validity of the “Air liquid” trademark for tobacco-related goods registered by a vaping company, against the objections of... (more story)
December 04, 2024 | Freny Patel
Asia
IndiGo, India's leading budget airline, has initiated legal action against domestic car manufacturer Mahindra Electric Automobile, in a trademark dispute. The legal battle centers around the use of "6E" in Mah... (more story)
December 04, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
To safeguard innovative endeavors, China has been actively combatting malicious litigation involving intellectual property rights, which is filed with harmful intent and lacks a valid legal basis. Despite thes... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 03, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A German industrial equipment firm was fined more than $14.5 million by US authorities for disguising the sale and supply of a decommissioned petrochemical plant to Iran.
December 03, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $14.55 million settlement with Aiotec GmbH, a Berlin, Germany-headquartered company that sources industrial equipment for... (more story)
December 03, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: A Chinese man living in California was arrested in the US on a federal criminal complaint alleging he exported to North Korea shipments of firearms, ammunition and other military items concealed ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 03, 2024 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Celsius Network founder Alexander Mashinsky pleaded guilty today to defrauding customers of his cryptocurrency lender. Mashinsky, who is 59 years old, pleaded guilty to commodities fraud and to the fraudulent ... (more story)
December 03, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: David Brend and Gustavo Rodriguez were sentenced to 10 years and eight years in prison, respectively, for their roles in the large-scale cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme known as IcomTech, the US Depa... (more story)
December 03, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Supreme Court has received a letter from the Financial Conduct Authority, which is seeking to speed up the process regarding the appeal application from Close Brothers and FirstRand Bank o... (more story)
Trade View More
December 03, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China has tightened export controls on dual-use items with both military and civilian applications to the US, following China's strong opposition to Washington's semiconductor export restrictions... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Laina S. Miller
North America
The US Court of International Trade has affirmed the Department of Commerce’s data selections to calculate benchmarks for the first antisubsidy duty review of aluminum foil from China.
December 03, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department’s final remand redetermination in its first review of an antisubsidy duty order on aluminum foil from China.
State Aid View More
December 03, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EU battery, green hydrogen and net-zero technology producers today saw the European Commission set aside 4.6 billion euros ($4.8 billion) under the Innovation Fund and its Hydrogen Bank. The batt... (more story)
December 02, 2024 | Lewis Crofts, Nicholas Hirst and Jean Comte
Europe
Teresa Ribera, Europe’s incoming competition and energy chief, is putting the finishing touches to her private office, bringing together legal and energy-policy expertise to oversee enforcement of the bloc’s p... (more story)
December 02, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback on its draft rules under the EU legislation on alternative fuels infrastructure. The three consultations opened today cover additional data types on pu... (more story)
Energy View More
December 03, 2024 | Stefano Porciello, Oscar Pandiello, Joanna Sopinska and Inbar Preiss
Europe
EU battery cell manufacturing projects for electric vehicles will stand a better chance of getting European funding if they diversify away from China, new rules earmarking 1 billion euros to the sector show. N... (more story)
December 03, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has set the quantity of CO2 emissions allowances to be issued under the Emissions Trading System for buildings, road transport and additional sectors for 2027, at 1,036,28... (more story)
December 03, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EU member states' intermediate gas storage-filling targets for 2025 were published today in the bloc's official bulletin. EU countries are given five intermediate refilling goals throughout the y... (more story)
Technology View More
December 03, 2024
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: A US judge issued a judgment ordering the forfeiture of assets tied to an Uzbekistan bribery scheme involving corrupt payments made to Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the late former president.
December 03, 2024 | Matthew Newman
Europe
TikTok officials faced a barrage of questions from EU lawmakers about its involvement in recent Romanian elections, with politicians demanding how the social-media platform could allow political advertising wh... (more story)
December 03, 2024 | Lewis Crofts, Nicholas Hirst and Matthew Newman
Europe
The EU’s regulatory campaign against Big Tech has set its enforcers on a collision course with the US under Donald Trump's incoming “America first” administration. EU cases against Apple, Google and X are well... (more story)