Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Umberto Berkani has been appointed General Rapporteur of the French competition authority, to succeed Stanislas Martin whose term has come to an end. Berkani served as case officer at the nationa... (more story)

Anticompetitive conduct in public-service procurement will continue to be one of the key focus areas for New Zealand’s competition watchdog this year, a senior official has said. Speaking at an event in Washin... (more story)

When the Philippine antitrust agency first began investigating complaints that the country’s largest mall chain, SM Supermalls, was requiring its tenants to sell only its own brand of bottled water, it was bra... (more story)

Samsung Display filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in the Eastern District of Texas yesterday against rival BOE Technology Group, accusing the Chinese company of stealing its trade secrets to build BOE... (more story)

Untrue claims of a product’s discontinuation are not actionable as false advertising under the Lanham Act, a California federal judge held yesterday. Memjet Technology’s claims of false advertising and trade l... (more story)

Allegations by AT&T and other carriers that third-party defendant ASUSTeK Computer breached its obligation to offer patent licenses on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms are moving forward in Texas. ... (more story)

South Korea launched a comprehensive economic response after US President Donald Trump announced sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” targeting major trading partners, including a 25 percent duty on South Korean impo... (more story)

MLex Summary: Dumping duties on imports of woven and, or stitched glass fiber fabrics from China and Egypt into the bloc are now subject to an expiry review, the European Commission said today. The review, ope... (more story)

The EU will respond to the US reciprocal tariffs of 20 percent on the bloc’s imports with countermeasures “if negotiations fail,” European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said today. She emphasized t... (more story)

MLex Summary: Hungary’s Media Council, Mediatanács, breached EU law when it refused to renew the contract of the commercial radio station Klubrádió and excluded it from a subsequent call for tenders to allocat... (more story)

Andrew Ferguson, the Republican chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, today accused the Democratic Party of having appeased Big Tech firms under the eight years of the Obama administration, and said they m... (more story)

A group of federal appeal judges questioned both NetChoice's First Amendment arguments and the state's defense of what it said is the law's carefully tailored approach in the industry group's constitutional ch... (more story)