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Data Privacy and Security
February 05, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
Data Privacy and Security
February 04, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 04, 2025 | Jon Menon
Europe
Antitrust View More
February 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Particle Health told a US judge that Epic Systems advances, for the first time, "a new and plainly meritless argument" that a competitor may only allege antitrust injury resulting from conduct th... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Intellectual Property Judges’ Association is urging European Commissioners Stéphane Séjourné and Ekaterina Zaharieva to “review” pending legislation on patents due to legal concerns, in a let... (more story)
February 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: National Farmers Union President Rob Larew called for stronger Packers and Stockyards Act enforcement in remarks delivered to the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, arguing that monopolies suppr... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 05, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission’s guidelines to clarify the definition of AI system under the EU AI Act have been delayed due to an internal dispute between commission departments concerning whether logistic regressio... (more story)
February 05, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK AI developers and users should not be subject to further uncertainty with any future AI regulation and need clarity from the government on its plans for the Regulatory Innovation Office, senior lawmakers ha... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Growth in the UK’s AI sector could be improved by the existing digital regulators being fully resourced for understanding and helping in their remits, and by the government clarifying its aims fo... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 05, 2025 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Germany-based XSYS’ purchase of American competitor MacDermid Graphics Solutions has been cleared without conditions in Brazil.
February 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: United Steelworkers international president David McCall filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him by US Steel and Nippon Steel, according to a statement. “U.S. Steel and Nippon lau... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Multipharma has won approval from the Belgian competition authority to acquire Popelin, a company recently established that bought the activities of Goed Farma. To win approval, the buyer agreed ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: New York Governor Kathy Hochul urged a US appeals court to direct a lower court to grant the California attorney general’s objection to a discovery order that allows Meta to ask for documents fro... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Social media platforms TikTok and X are facing four class-action lawsuits in Germany, law firm Spirit Legal said announcing that it is suing the platforms on behalf of the Dutch Foundation for Ma... (more story)
February 05, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Two federal employee unions have filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to block the US Department of the Treasury and its Bureau of the Fiscal Service from giving over Elon Musk's Depa... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 05, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Firstbase.IO can’t undo a final judgment that it owes Harbor Compliance $27.9 million in connection with Harbor’s successful claims of unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation flowing from the part... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court’s Munich division has rejected a counterclaim by Ericsson to revoke European patent 3,780,758, a patent held by Motorola Mobility. The court upheld Motorola’s argument th... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Austrian Federal Administrative Court has asked the EU’s top court to clarify the rules on blocking websites for copyright reasons. The court wants to know if Internet providers can be forced... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 05, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office is set to receive a 15-million-pounds cash ($18.8 million) injection from the government to fund its biggest probes, the third advance it has had over the last three years. The mo... (more story)
February 04, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
An Elon Musk-led takeover of the lead US development aid agency could wreak havoc on global anti-corruption initiatives. By law, the president cannot abolish, move or consolidate USAID, but Musk and Trump admi... (more story)
February 04, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce, head of the agency’s cryptocurrency task force, asked for industry patience as her panel prepares to recommend a regulatory framework with anti-fraud protections.
Financial Services View More
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Santander's legal dispute at the General Court of the EU against a decision by the European Central Bank was published in the EU's Official Journal. Santander contests the decision of the ECB con... (more story)
February 05, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Two new “omnibus” proposals — focusing on mid-caps and on investment simplification — are expected to be presented by the European Commission in the second quarter of 2025. According to annexes from the commis... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK trading venues have received new rules for commodity derivatives markets aimed at supporting orderly pricing and settlement conditions, and mitigating risks of market abuse. "The revised frame... (more story)
Trade View More
February 05, 2025 | Ansley Franco
Asia, Europe, North America
Packages from China and Hong Kong will continue to be shipped to the US by the United States Postal Service, after the company rescinded a decision that temporarily suspended shipments from those places. The d... (more story)
February 05, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Proposed EU customs reforms must urgently be passed into law to address the growing influx of packages entering each year that don't comply with EU safety and sustainability standards, the bloc's trade chief, ... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Low-value imports sold via non-EU online retailers and marketplaces hosting non-EU traders will see coordinated action to tackle the risks from unsafe, counterfeit or otherwise harmful products, ... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Ryanair today lost its legal challenge to renewed EU clearance for Portuguese rescue aid of up to 1.2 billion euros to its flag-carrier airline in light of the pandemic. In 2021, the EU General C... (more story)
February 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Czech government has won approval for its plan to compensate Czech Post for its universal service mission for the period covering 2023 and 2024, the European Commission said today. The measur... (more story)
February 03, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in France will be eligible for direct grants to support the chemical recycling of plastic waste under a plan worth 500 million euros (around $520 million), which has been cleared under ... (more story)
Energy View More
February 05, 2025 | Helena Freitas
Europe
The upcoming EU affordable energy action plan might include short-term measures to decouple retail energy bills from high fossil fuel prices, address the non-energy parts of energy bills and improve the superv... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Several European banking regulators on the European Banking Authority's board of supervisors said the majority of banks in their jurisdictions haven't fully incorporated physical risks from clima... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The upcoming Clean Industrial Deal must provide incentives for EU industries to adopt cleantech to facilitate "their transition toward decarbonized, circular, and innovative business models," rep... (more story)
Technology View More
February 05, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Meta Platforms and other providers of messaging and platform services have seen the focus sharpen again on the question of what EU legal duties they should face for tackling child sexual abuse material, with n... (more story)
February 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK companies have seen the Information Commissioner’s Office create a direct-marketing advice tool, to promote compliance with data protection law. The ICO's free online service covers e-mail, SM... (more story)
February 05, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK tech companies have seen an extra tool released by the online safety regulator to help them complete risk assessments required by the Online Safety Act, as Ofcom prepares to start enforcement of its illegal... (more story)