China’s top court has ruled that a dominant company can't justify preferential pricing for customers simply because they are linked to its shareholders, upholding an abuse-of-dominance finding against the sole... (more story)

Japan's Toridoll Holdings, a Tokyo-based restaurant group, received a corrective recommendation Wednesday from Japan’s competition watchdog for deducting a 1.1 percent “system usage fee” from payments to 37 fo... (more story)

MLex Summary: Australia’s dominant cash-in-transit provider Linfox Armaguard has been designated by the country’s central bank under the new cash-distribution framework, the competition regulator said. In a st... (more story)

The US lost two entries in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s list of the top 100 geographies for innovation while China added one, with a patent-intensive battery hub accounting for the annual ran... (more story)

The EU’s top court has drawn the line between political parody and trademark protection, saying Vlaams Belang’s Ikea-themed immigration campaign was likely unjustified even as it recognized that free speech ca... (more story)

China will strengthen intellectual property protection in emerging fields, speed the commercialization of research results and deepen international cooperation as it begins the 15th Five-Year Plan, which runs ... (more story)

The US Court of International trade granted the Commerce Department's request to remand the review results of its antidumping duty order on Chinese steel racks following the Federal Circuit's 2025 ban on the u... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has remanded the Commerce Department's 2022-2023 review results for the antidumping duty order on Chinese steel racks.

MLex Summary: Ecuadorian firms Nirsa S.A. and Procesadora Posorja Proposorja S.A. filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's August review of an antisubsidy o... (more story)

Major tech platforms will be required to build in device-level protections for children under planned new UK legislation, culture minister Lisa Nandy told lawmakers Tuesday, three months after companies were t... (more story)

MLex Summary: Social media platform X’s age-assurance and parental-control measures are under formal scrutiny, the Irish media regulator said Tuesday. The case is Coimisiún na Meán's first investigation under ... (more story)

X is under a formal Irish regulatory probe — the first under the country's Online Safety Code — over over whether its age assurance measures and parental controls adequately protect children from adult-only vi... (more story)