Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Google said the US Department of Justice's "extreme" remedy proposals in an Internet search monopolization suit ignore the immense competition across the industry and how it has transformed the i... (more story)

Gail Slater, antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice, today said competition authorities ought to explore steps they can take and the role they have to play in stimulating economic growth and deregulat... (more story)

A high degree of competition among generative AI firms will not resolve concerns that Google could circumvent any remedies imposed by a US federal court to address its illegal monopoly in the Internet search m... (more story)

The implications of a UK Court of Appeal decision last week which upped, by order of magnitude, the amount Apple owes for infringing cellular standard essential patents owned by Optis was very much on the mind... (more story)

Texas Republican Representative Jodey Arrington introduced a new bill today to limit so-called “patent thickets” by limiting the number of patents that can be asserted in an infringement action. The bipartisan... (more story)

A Virginia federal judge dismissed with prejudice General Cigar’s attempt to reverse the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's cancellation of its “Cohiba” trademark for cigars in a win for Cuba’s Empresa Cubana ... (more story)

With high-level talks approaching this weekend with Chinese officials, the Trump administration is signaling interest in de-escalating the trade war and offering some tariff relief in the first round of negoti... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US has asked Mexico to review whether workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining are being denied at the Amphenol Optimize México facility in Sonora, Mexico.

The US International Trade Commission has voted unanimously to continue antidumping and antisubsidy investigations of multifunctional acrylate and methacrylate monomers and oligomers (MAMMOs) from South Korea and Taiwan.

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission is seeking to file an amicus brief in support of the remedies proposed by the US Department of Justice and a coalition of states in an Internet search monopoly cas... (more story)

EU governments plan to call on the bloc’s executive arm to develop a new strategy to meet the EU’s goal of reaching its target of 20 percent of global chip share, MLex has learned. A report last year by former... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK government departments are falling behind on cyber resilience, a new report by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found, warning that outdated IT systems and staffing gaps pose ... (more story)