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Antitrust
December 18, 2024 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Antitrust
December 18, 2024 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Intellectual Property
December 18, 2024 | Nick Robertson
North America
Antitrust View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has published final guidance on the new digital markets competition regime. The regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act is sched... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has said in a report published today that there may be merit in a review of how UK industry sector regulators and the CMA can work more effectively on t... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple must open up the notifications, WiFi and Bluetooth functionality on its iPhones, and make other changes, to ensure interoperability with third-party devices, under a European Commission dec... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 19, 2024 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission announced today that it released guidelines on AI privacy-risk management and the safe use of synthetic data. The new guidelines complement earlier ones... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: China's cybersecurity standard-setting body, TC260, has unveiled draft guidelines to enhance emergency-response capabilities for generative artificial intelligence services. The guidelines propos... (more story)
December 19, 2024 | MLex Staff
Asia
A recent report from a Chinese research center highlights deficiencies in the protection of personal information and intellectual property rights among China's leading domestic large artificial intelligence mo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Krone, a German maker of commercial and agricultural vehicles, has won EU approval to acquire Austrian rival Schwarzmüller. The European Commission said the deal raised no competition concerns, g... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Altrad’s buyout of energy services company Stork UK has been cleared by the UK antitrust regulator following an initial phase I probe. The Competition and Markets Authority said it will publish t... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The German competition authority said today that it issued fines this year amounting to around 19.4 million euros for cartel agreements. Since 2019, the Bundeskartellamt has imposed fines totalin... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Google’s decision to allow advertisers to use fingerprinting technology for tracking users online is “irresponsible,” the UK data privacy regulator said today. Fingerprinting involves collecting ... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: A German law on collective agreements that covers data processing should be bound by both EU privacy laws protecting workers’ human dignity and legitimate interests, as well as general principles... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Kaspr, a company specializing in professional data collection, was recently fined 200,000 euros (around $220,000) by France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, the authority... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court has upheld Roche Diabetes Care’s EP 2,196,231 B1, rejecting claims of invalidity made by Tandem Diabetes Care. The Paris Central Division examined whether Roche’s patent ... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's highest court today clarified whether — and to what extent — a Supplementary Protection Certificate for medicinal products can be granted for a combination of active ingredients used in ... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Electronics company Belkin is due to pay a penalty of 46,000 euros for non-compliance with a Unified Patent Court order to provide information in a dispute with Koninklijke Philips, concerning EP... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 19, 2024 | Phoebe Seers
Europe
Investors in the UK peer-to-peer style platform Collateral have received an apology and 650 pounds from the financial services watchdog after it conceded it initially failed to spot an incorrect permission on ... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden has taken "insufficient action" to punish companies for foreign bribery offenses, the OECD Working Group on Bribery said today. "While there have been positive developments, the overall st... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Croatia has made progress in implementing international anti-bribery standards, but must do more to tackle foreign bribery enforcement, the OECD Working Group on Bribery said today.
Financial Services View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has published a consultation to issue a new information regime for Consumer Composite Investment, an investment where the returns depend on the performance — ... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: UK car finance lenders will be able to pause their responses to complaints related to commissions until December 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority said. The deadline initially only applied to... (more story)
December 18, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced a comprehensive cease-and-desist order against USAA Federal Savings Bank to require the bank to correct a range of deficiencies. The ord... (more story)
Trade View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Vietnamese steel producer Lam Khang secured today an exemption from the EU countervailing duties imposed on the import of stainless steel cold-rolled flat products from Indonesia and then extende... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has started three separate investigations into products from China, Taiwan and South Korea, to see if imports into the bloc have been unfairly dumped to the detriment of E... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission today said that it started a safeguard investigation into imports of manganese and silicon-based alloying elements. The authority will look into whether the product is bei... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 18, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany has secured EU approval to grant 350 million euros to Concrete Chemicals to produce synthetic aviation fuels. The European Commission said the support was in line with EU state aid rules ... (more story)
December 18, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany and the Netherlands have won state aid approval for their plan to introduce a joint program worth 3 billion euros to support the production of renewable fuels of non-biological origin. Th... (more story)
December 18, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: French plans to give up to 3 billion euros in state support over the next 15 years to companies subject to the EU Emission Trading Scheme has won EU approval. The European Commission said the Fre... (more story)
Energy View More
December 19, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU car industry will see the “strategic dialogue” on its future start in January 2025. It will be led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and will focus on data-driven innov... (more story)
December 18, 2024
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian competition regulator is seeking public feedback on a proposal that would allow the country’s major supermarkets to collaborate on environmental initiatives. In a statement today, ... (more story)
December 18, 2024 | Stefano Porciello
North America
US carmakers will face clean car sales targets in standard-setter California after the Environmental Protection Agency formally allowed the state to mandate that all new vehicles be zero-emission by 2035. The ... (more story)
Technology View More
December 19, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine privacy regulator has published guidelines on how the country’s Data Privacy Act applies to artificial-intelligence systems. It outlines the need to clearly inform data subjects of... (more story)
December 19, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam's recently passed Data Law has been published by the National Assembly, which applies to both domestic and foreign entities engaged in digital data activities in Vietnam. The law governs ... (more story)
December 18, 2024 | Mike Swift
North America
Google hopes to use class certification as an early exit ramp in copyright litigation accusing the company of illegally using copyrighted works to train its AI models, telling a judge in San Jose today that it... (more story)