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Raising Australia’s merger-notification thresholds after a review of the new regime could still leave deals that raise competition concerns outside the new mandatory system, an Australian competition official ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said on Monday that it published further responses from designated digital-platform operators Amazon Japan, Rakuten Group and LY Corp. as part of i... (more story)

Align Technology’s justification for cutting off an interoperability agreement with a rival dental tech firm may have been pretextual, a US appeals court panel said Monday in an order reviving long-running mon... (more story)

US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires expects to announce "in the coming weeks" a plan to return merits-based institution decisions to Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges, he told MLex, as a se... (more story)

IP leaders warned last week that President Donald Trump’s research funding and immigration restrictions, along with higher tariffs, could weaken US innovation and its access to global markets.

India's Supreme Court will examine whether patent holders should lose part of their 20-year protection because of delays in granting patents.

MLex Summary: Japanese government-backed chipmaker Rapidus said Monday that it has unveiled Rapidus CORE, a global ecosystem framework to support the development and mass production of cutting-edge semiconduct... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Canadian federal government appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn the US Court of International Trade's July ruling that upheld the US Department of Commerce... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korean producer POSCO filed a challenge at the US Court of International Trade against the Commerce Department's September review of an antisubsidy order on cold-rolled steel flat products ... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korea’s antitrust regulator has issued consolidated guidance to help online businesses comply with rules against dark patterns, including a recommendation to make cancellation and account-d... (more story)

TikTok’s challenge of information requests made under the UK’s Online Safety Act is targeting the regulator’s use of its information-gathering powers, which TikTok said goes beyond what the law permits, the co... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice and state plaintiffs filed their proposed final judgment in their adtech markets monopolization lawsuit against Google.