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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
March 10, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Trade
March 10, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 07, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust View More
March 11, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The Japanese Cabinet approved a bill today to significantly amend the Subcontract Act, empowering small- and medium-sized enterprises to pass on higher costs to their larger trading partners. The move aims to ... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Agri Stats’ counsel improperly released details of confidential settlement talks with the US Department of Justice into the public record despite being warned in advance, an agency attorney said today while op... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Wayne-Sanderson Farms is pursuing "a veiled attempt to modify" a consent decree it entered into with the US Department of Justice "when the plain language of the Final Judgment prohibits both sen... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 11, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Whether California laws restricting “deepfakes” during elections violate free speech or instead thwart potential threats to democracy is a question squarely before a US judge. Right-wing satirists and online p... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK tech and digital businesses will be supported by innovation-friendly regulation under a plan to help fuel national economic growth, technology minister Peter Kyle said today, announcing a new forum to prepa... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and Information Commissioner’s Office will host a joint event with financial services industry leaders on May 9 to discuss regulatory constraints to artificia... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 10, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Skydance Media attorneys sent an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission today urging the agency to reject claims and demands made by Project Rise Partners, an investment group whose rival bid ... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Skydance Media responded to a 13-page letter submitted last week by Project Rise Partners to the US Federal Communications Commission, calling it a "a series of baseless allegations." Project Ris... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority fully reviewed a deal involving Softy and Ontex in the Brazilian personal care market and concluded it doesn’t harm competition. CADE’s Superintendence also scrutinized the ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 11, 2025 | Mike Swift and Xu Yuan
North America
California’s annual data broker registry shows the wide reach of a shadowy industry with nearly 500 companies from more than 40 states and nearly a dozen countries around the world. About one in five collect s... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Maria Dinzeo
North America
US cybersecurity defenders in the private sector remain on alert for Russian threats even as the federal workforce has been hit with staff reductions and reports indicate national agencies may be softening on the issue.
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex summary: Attorney General Rob Bonta sent letters to advertising networks, mobile app providers and data brokers who appear to be in violation of the California Consumer Privacy Act, requesting additional ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the cancellation of a wireless data transfer patent owned by Sisvel, writing that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board improperly... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board today that a Sisvel wireless data transmission patent is anticipated or rendered obvious by ... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: BMC Software has failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to revive its case against IBM. The parties were once privy to a master license agreement whereby IBM licensed BMC’s copyrighted software ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A federal judge ruled that a Russian businessman lacks standing to claim ownership of a $300 million superyacht the US government had seized in 2022 under claims it belonged to a sanctioned oligarch. In an ord... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The board of Petrobras, Brazil's state-run energy firm, has approved a settlement with EIG over a lawsuit concerning the US firm's investment in a shareholder of a drillship company, Sete Brazil,... (more story)
March 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A review of the corruption case against two former executives of Cognizant Technology Solutions will take months, New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor said in a court filing arguing for a lengthy adjournment of... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 10, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
The Basel III Endgame Proposal needs to be re-proposed based on current capital concerns, acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood said today.
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Marcel Haag, senior finance official at the European Commission’s department for financial stability, financial services and capital markets union has retired. He was the head of the department t... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A group of EU countries — Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden — have suggested... (more story)
Trade View More
March 10, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
The Court of International Trade today affirmed Commerce's antidumping determination on Vietnamese catfish in a long-running dispute at the court. Judge M. Miller Baker rejected arguments from US-based trade a... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: The US Court of International Trade affirmed a Commerce Department antidumping determination on Vietnamese catfish. Judge M. Miller Baker rejected arguments from US-based trade association Catfis... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: Ontario Premier Doug Ford imposed a 25 percent tax on electricity exports to the US as the trade war between Washington and Canada escalates. Ford said in a statement the energy surcharge will hi... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Competitiveness Fund that the EU Commission is planning as part of the next multi-annual budget should be able to co-fund the Important Projects of Common European Interest, or IPCEIs, accord... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Dansk Avis Omdeling Distribution, a deliverer of small parcels and periodicals, has seen its 2023 legal challenge against state support in favor of Post Danmark rejected. The General Court dismis... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Two Romanian-Swedish investors, Ioan and Viorel Micula, along with several food and drinks companies, have filed an appeal to the bloc's top court to challenge a lower court's verdict that an arb... (more story)
Energy View More
March 10, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
There is no likelihood a reasonable consumer would be confused by Solar Now’s billboards and social media posts mocking its competitor in the Puerto Rico solar energy market, a federal judge there has ruled. ... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Hydrogen Bank’s second auction for the production of renewable hydrogen has registered 61 bids, the European Commission has said. The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment... (more story)
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Imerys PCC France's legal dispute at the General Court of the EU against the European Commission has been published in the bloc's official bulletin. The company contests the commission's specific... (more story)
Technology View More
March 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Since mid-November, Appeals Centre Europe has received over 1,500 disputes and, since late January, has issued more than 150 decisions — most of which recommend overturning the platforms’ origina... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Plaintiffs filed a reply in support of a US appeals court reviving their case seeking to hold Google liable for the death of a family member in a Paris terrorist attack, saying two plaintiffs hav... (more story)
March 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Realtek Semiconductor said in a statement that it is pleased with a California federal judge's ruling allowing its trimmed antitrust claims against MediaTek and patent assertion firms Future Link... (more story)