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September 25, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
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September 25, 2025 | Neil Roland
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Artificial Intelligence
September 24, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
September 29, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Korea Fair Trade Commission Chair Ju Biung-ghi pledged to ease payment burdens and step up oversight of retail and platform operators. Speaking at a roundtable with supplier industry groups in Se... (more story)
September 29, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s National Assembly has passed a sweeping government reorganization bill that dismantles the prosecution service and enacts some of President Lee Jae Myung’s most ambitious reforms, including the r... (more story)
September 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google’s adtech assets can be separated and migrated to a new buyer within 18-24 months if a US court orders a divestiture, if the tech giant engages in good faith and if the acquirer gets a reasonably compete... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 29, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Privacy group Noyb said on Monday that it had filed a complaint about Whitebridge AI to Lithuania's data protection authority. In a statement, the Vienna-based campaigner said it had asked the wa... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Alex Wilts
North America
Over the past year, Google has been forced to grapple with two court orders aimed at chipping away at the network effects it has enjoyed in different markets — though both decisions are expected to have only m... (more story)
September 26, 2025
North America
MLex summary: Record companies managed by the Recording Industry Association of America are seeking to add a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim to their US lawsuit against AI music startup Udio. They alleg... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 29, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation on Sunday approved Keysight Technologies' acquisition of Spirent Communications with restrictive conditions. To address competition concerns in ... (more story)
September 29, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The review of global-infrastructure developer Acciona’s bid to acquire the East Rockingham Waste to Energy Program, which is currently in receivership, has restarted in Australia, after the compe... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
Asia, North America, Oceania
Ad agencies Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group are now bound by a final consent decree with the US Federal Trade Commission that contains a more expansive prohibition on viewpoint discrimination against media... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 29, 2025 | Freny Patel & Mike Swift
Asia
India missed the Sept 28 deadline for notifying the final Digital Personal Data Protection rules, leaving the landmark data-privacy law's operational framework and business compliance in limbo.
September 27, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Californians are on track to get a single place to block data brokers from trading on their personal information, as state privacy regulators on Friday advanced updated rules for a new opt-out platform. The st... (more story)
September 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a federal court that its claims against Experian Information Solutions are timely because it has adequately alleged that the statute of limitation... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A recent executive order’s designation of patent examiners’ work as “relating to national security” offers a chance for the US Patent and Trademark Office to re-evaluate how it coordinates with US defense agen... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The Bank of New York Mellon this week won an order barring TV Azteca and others from using Mexico’s courts to avoid collection of a $400 million indenture. That the relief entered emanates from a circuit with ... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
Changes to US Patent and Trademark Office policy intended to reduce the patent backlog and pendency appear to already be a success just months after their introduction. The office has met its goal of reducing ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 26, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Fraudster Timothy Schools has been ordered by a UK court to put a “payment plan” in place within the next month as part of a bid by the UK fraud agency to claw back £1 million from him. Schools pocketed almost... (more story)
September 25, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Michael Palleschi, the former chairman and chief executive of FTE Networks, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a years-long scheme to inflate the telecommunications company's revenue... (more story)
September 25, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
US prosecutors don’t intend to discuss or reference a Mexican businessman’s alleged connections to a drug cartel during their case in his upcoming corruption trial, according to a new court filing.
Financial Services View More
September 26, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission sought public input on how to improve its rules governing residential mortgage-backed securities and certain aspects of post-Financial Crisis asset-backed securities m... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
An EU Single Market Roadmap to 2028 will provide clear targets and deadlines for tackling barriers in finance, services, energy, telecoms and innovation, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen anno... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
A legal dispute over the provision of a consolidated tape for UK bonds risks pushing the long-awaited project back. Tech firm Etrading Software was chosen last month, but disappointed rival bidder Ediphy has s... (more story)
Trade View More
September 29, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The chair of the ASEAN Economic Ministers, Tengku Zafrul Aziz, announced Friday that "good progress" in being made on the implementation of the key initiatives of Malaysia’s chairmanship of ASEAN... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Zack Budryk
North America
Seaborne trade is projected to nearly flatline this year after seeing more robust growth in 2024, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned in a new report.
September 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Certain chassis and subassemblies imported from Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand were sold, or are likely to be sold, at less than fair value in the US, the US Department of Commerce's International ... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Non-EU companies bidding in EU public tenders below €250 million will face increased scrutiny under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, a senior European Commission official has said. The regulator plans to make... (more story)
September 24, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
The UK gambling regulator has scored a procedural win as a lawsuit against it by The New Lottery Company alleging an unfair subsidy to a rival moves toward trial. The New Lottery Company was refused permission... (more story)
September 23, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Portugal’s €100 million budget increase for a 2022 program compensating energy-intensive companies for higher power prices linked to carbon costs has been cleared under EU state aid rules, the Eu... (more story)
Energy View More
September 26, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Investors’ interest in battery storage is growing significantly in Europe after events such as the Iberian blackout increased market-balancing costs, the head of Swiss-based energy company MET Group has said. ... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Eni today strongly criticized a finding by Italy's competition authority that it colluded with rivals to coordinate the price for a gasoline component. The case "ignores market logic and misrepresents the fact... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
A UK government-owned investment body aimed at helping drive the green energy transition and boost funding for Net Zero projects could help catalyze the development of green energy IP in a traditionally risk-a... (more story)
Technology View More
September 26, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Nursery chain Kido International has notified the UK privacy regulator of a cyber attack this week that has reportedly compromised personal data, including photos and addresses, of more than 8,000 children. Th... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Matthew Newman*
Europe
Meta"s Facebook and Instagram face preliminary charges from EU regulators as early as next week that they haven't fulfilled duties in the EU's content-moderation law to set up easy-to-use systems to notify ill... (more story)
September 26, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The EU is close to finalizing a set of recommendations for how member states should check their supply chains for all digital technologies and restrict or exclude high-risk vendors. The so-called Information a... (more story)