Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

EU action against companies misusing their power to exploit customers and consumers is experiencing “an interesting new life” beyond merely scrutinizing prices, Anthony Whelan said. The director-general of the... (more story)

MLex Summary: Cumulus Media New Holdings' request for a rehearing en banc at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in its antitrust case against The Nielsen Company has been denied. Cumulus had sought... (more story)

MLex Summary: Former pharmaceutical industry executive Martin Shkreli has "flagrantly and repeatedly" violated a 2022 court order banning him from the industry, the US Federal Trade Commission and seven states... (more story)

Following objections from major patent holders and smaller technology firms alike, the UK government is taking a lighter touch to standard-essential patent reform, focusing instead on licensing guidance, volun... (more story)

A Shanghai appeals court upheld a ruling ordering a platform operator to pay compensation for using artificial intelligence to replicate a voice actor’s voice without permission for commercial promotion, clari... (more story)

Insta360 has lost a design patent appeal against three Shenzhen-based companies, with a Chinese court finding that shared camera features common in earlier designs were insufficient to establish infringement.

MLex Summary: A binational panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Secretariat’s US Section has partially affirmed the US Commerce Department’s affirmative countervailing duty determination for cert... (more story)

MLex Summary: US importer Coastal Specialty Forest Products has filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to contest Customs and Border Protection's affirmative evasion determination that said the co... (more story)

Turkey’s deputy trade minister has warned that tighter European-content requirements under the EU’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act could exclude Turkish producers, disrupt shared supply chains and raise c... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act could impose €115 billion in costs over a decade, according to a study commissioned by the Computer & Communications Industry Association, or CCIA E... (more story)

MLex Summary: Former US Department of Justice Antitrust Division official George “Chip” Nierlich has joined the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP as a partner in the Antitrust Group, based in the Washington, D... (more story)

The UK will resume testing of frontier AI models following recent negotiations with the US, AI minister Kanishka Narayan said Monday, as he outlined government plans to strengthen the country's cyber defenses ... (more story)