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Intellectual Property
March 28, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
March 27, 2025 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Trade
March 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress, Joanna Sopinska, Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
Antitrust View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: End-payor plaintiffs asked a US federal judge for final approval to their $5.47 million settlement with AstraZeneca and Handa Pharmaceuticals to resolve US antitrust claims over the drug Seroquel... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Circadian, a building developer controlled by CK Asset Holdings, has filed a damages claim in the UK's antitrust court against Carey Group, PJ Carey Plant Hire (Oval) and TE Scudder in relation t... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: App developers in the UK will have the choice as of tomorrow to use different billing options in Google's Play Store after the company made changes to address competition concerns. In a blog post... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: NetChoice told a US federal judge that the California “deepfake” election campaign law would unconstitutionally replace websites’ private content-moderation decisions with government compulsion t... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has said it will invest 1.3 billion euros (around $1.4 billion) in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital skills. These investments, through the Digital Europe... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's market regulator plans to establish data security standards targeting generative AI data labeling and optimization training to secure the entire generative AI process, according to Wang Q... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: GTCR and Surmodics filed their answers to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint seeking to block their proposed merger and requesting a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to... (more story)
March 28, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Canada’s Competition Bureau announced that the filing fee for merger reviews will increase from C$86,358.76 ($60,000) to C$88,690.45 ($63,000), effective April 1.
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation, or SAMR, will conduct a review of CK Hutchison's plan to sell port assets to a consortium led by BlackRock, according to an article posted on t... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 28, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Meta’s settlement of a landmark UK lawsuit challenging its use of personal data for targeted ads last week is already making waves: an advocacy group has asked US social-media company to stop showing targeted ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The rapid growth of e-commerce is increasing the risk of exposure to dark patterns, the Polish competition and consumer authority has said. UOKiK's comments follow an event in Warsaw this week, h... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Lewis Crofts, Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Apple is set to see French investigators wrap up a probe into allegedly abusive conduct related to its “privacy prompt” for mobile apps. A final decision could come as early as next week, MLex has learned, wit... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 28, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
An appellate court in the UK refused today to undo findings that continued use by Merck & Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme of “Merck” online in the UK ran afoul of not only its promise to Germany’s Merck KGaA but a... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
A Hong Kong alcohol wholesaler has been hit with penalties from a Dutch court for its counterfeit vodka and whiskey brands. In cases brought by Moët Hennessy, the Glenmorangie Company and Bacardi, The Hague Di... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Former Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte, a vocal proponent of the American Invents Act, which created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, said yesterday that recent US Patent and Trademark Office changes... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Four individuals have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of fraud and money laundering as part of a police operation involving the Financial Conduct Authority and City of London Police. The reg... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe, North America
US “backtracking” on a key anti-corruption law is sending a “bad signal” to the world, a French lawmaker has said in a strong riposte against the country. Amélie de Montchalin said that any country going again... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: At the request of South Korea's financial authorities, Google has blocked domestic access to apps from 17 unregistered foreign virtual asset service providers on its Play Store. According to the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Capital requirements on financial firms considered systemically important for the UK's domestic economy but not necessarily for the global economy are under consultation by the Bank of England's ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has said it's open to a discussion on how first-time homebuyers can make use of their pension savings to ease the purchase. “When we open our discussion on the ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK financial sector will pay a levy of 108.6 million pounds (around $140 million) to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, the Prudential Regulation Authority confirmed today after runn... (more story)
Trade View More
March 28, 2025 | Sam Rubenfeld and Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week imposing tariffs on countries that import Venezuelan oil, deploying a novel foreign policy tool.
March 28, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Asia, North America
The US International Trade Commission voted unanimously today to continue an investigation into imports from China of a chemical intermediate used primarily in the manufacture of polyurethanes.
March 28, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
US Customs and Border Protection has found that a US importer is circumventing an antidumping order on quartz surface product by misrepresenting the country of origin as Thailand, though it said three other Am... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Nuctech has failed to convince judges at the EU's highest court to put an interim block on evidence gathered during raids carried out under the rules governing foreign subsidies. The company was ... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Chinese companies shouldn’t feel “targeted” by EU rules designed to combat distortive state subsidies from foreign countries, a senior EU official said today. Eddy de Smijter was responding to comments by a re... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Nuctech’s attempt to put a temporary block on EU subsidy investigators using evidence collected during a dawn raid has been rejected by the EU's Court of Justice, a lawyer with the European Commission said tod... (more story)
Energy View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's environment chief Jessika Roswall and the UN Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen today agreed on further cooperation on environment and climate issues, at a meeting in ... (more story)
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy-intensive industries need immediate and structural measures to reinvigorate the sector in the EU, industry representatives have said. “Without urgent and decisive action, the EU risks acce... (more story)
March 27, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology View More
March 28, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK tech and media companies got sight today of communications regulator Ofcom's workplan for 2025 and 2026, which is built around supporting long-term economic growth. Online safety, media trust,... (more story)
March 28, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese lawmakers are weighing up two bills aimed at introducing active cyber defense in response to the rising threat of cyberattacks from state-sponsored actors and other sources. The bills mark a significa... (more story)
March 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant, Madeline Hughes and Chris May
North America
Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, two Federal Trade Commissioners who said they were illegally fired by US President Donald Trump, today sued him over his "indefensible" action, as well as FTC Chairma... (more story)