Elevator makers Kone and TK Elevator have agreed a €29.4 billion deal to combine their businesses into a global player. Kone’s CEO said regulatory filings will begin shortly, with approvals required from the E... (more story)

Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, wants an Australian judge to issue relief orders that have "a global market" approach, allowing Australian developers to distribute apps elsewhere and for Apple to eliminate co... (more story)

Mastercard’s agreement with Coles was designed in part to protect transaction volumes and limit the appeal of routing debit payments through Eftpos, an Australian court heard on Wednesday in an antitrust trial... (more story)

Garrett Reynolds, co-founder of code access startup UpCodes, says a recent ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirming the company’s fair use defense marks a significant moment not just... (more story)

China’s top court has clarified how to assess whether trademarks consisting of short phrases are distinctive and eligible for registration, in a retrial involving British perfume house Penhaligon’s.

India has announced a three-year fee waiver for intellectual property registrations related to sports to boost innovation, encourage filings and support manufacturing. The idea is to shift the sector toward IP... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Energy announced agreements with Central and Eastern European nations to increase pipeline and natural gas infrastructure to support more energy exports to the region. The US... (more story)

MLex Summary: William Kimmitt, the US under secretary of Commerce for International Trade, announced the formal launch of the Trump administration’s “Trade over Aid” approach that focuses on promoting free-mar... (more story)

EU member states have raised questions about whether the bloc's manufacturers would have sufficient production capacity to meet legislative plans that would require Europe's automotive sector to use more Europ... (more story)

MLex Summary: British telecom operator BT is being investigated for potentially failing to comply with legally binding requests for information from regulator Ofcom. The probe relates to requests issued in Dec... (more story)

Meta Platforms was preliminarily found in breach of EU digital rules over failures in risk assessment and age verification related to child protection, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The EU executi... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been preliminarily found by the European Commission on Wednesday to have breached the Digital Services Act by failing to stop children under 13 from accessing Facebook and Inst... (more story)