MLex Summary: Temu's parent company PDD Holdings and its subsidiary WhaleCo Technology have received a formal warning from the European Commission for not having cooperated during an inspection in Ireland. The... (more story)

Chinese e-commerce platform Temu could face fines after the European Commission formally accused it of hindering an investigation into whether it was unfairly benefiting from government support. The EU regulat... (more story)

China has appointed Luo Wen, the head of the country's top market regulator, as Communist Party secretary of Hebei Province, moving a senior official with experience in industrial regulation and market oversig... (more story)

Japan's IP High Court upheld the dismissal of a trade secret lawsuit brought by a recruitment company, finding the company failed to prove that a former employee improperly obtained confidential information th... (more story)

China has launched the first specialized aerospace patent pool in Guizhou Province, as authorities step up efforts to commercialize patents and strengthen collaboration across the country's strategic aerospace supply chain.

The Delhi High Court is set to consider whether India's patent regime should recognize inventions involving artificial intelligence, in a case that could test whether the country adopts a more flexible approac... (more story)

France and Germany are using the summer to try to bridge their differences over the EU Industrial Accelerator Act's politically sensitive "Made in Europe" rules. A compromise between the EU's two largest econo... (more story)

MLex Summary: The modernized EU-Mexico interim trade agreement, which will eliminate most remaining customs duties, was published in the bloc’s Official Journal on Friday. The deal will remove 95 percent of hi... (more story)

MLex Summary: China has extended its antidumping investigation into Canada-origin pea starch until Feb. 12, 2027, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday. The investigation, which... (more story)

MLex Summary: An experts’ report on the EU’s approach to children’s access to social media and other digital services has drawn criticism from the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe, which warned that re... (more story)

Capping four days of testimony in Tennessee's addictive design trial against Meta Platforms, Arturo Bejar, the social media giant's former director of engineering, parried a series of aggressive questions from... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK Ministry of Defence’s 2022 data breach — the leak of a spreadsheet containing detailed personal information from more than 18,500 Afghan relocation applications — was a foreseeable systemi... (more story)