Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Brazil’s competition authority is set to rule on Oct. 7 on whether to approve American Airlines’ $100 million investment in Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras following an appeal by Abra Group. Membe... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Lithuanian city of Panevėžys has lost a legal challenge to a decision made by the national competition authority, which found it had breached antitrust rules by discriminating against waste-m... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Thursday said it has finalized revisions to its guidelines for transactions under the SME Transactions Act, which took effect in January, and the freelance work... (more story)

This week, the UPC Court of Appeal restored Nvidia’s and Keysight Technologies’ rights to appeal decisions, leaving their conditional patent-revocation counterclaims undecided after findings of noninfringement... (more story)

Europe needs trusted methods for valuing intellectual property to encourage banks to lend against companies’ IP assets, EUIPO chief João Negrão said. The agency is preparing an IP-backed finance framework as B... (more story)

Patented medicines could face greater government intervention after an Indian court ruled that unaffordable prices can trigger government use of pharmaceutical patents to supply drugs to patients.

The EU's plans to steer companies away from dominant suppliers are raising the stakes for trade talks with China. A new tool to diversify supply chains — expected by December — could give Brussels more leverag... (more story)

France is seeking allies among EU governments to shape the European Commission’s planned diversification instrument, expected in December, calling for powers to impose tariffs and restrictions on goods and ser... (more story)

India’s investment reforms have failed to dispel US concerns over discriminatory rules, unpredictable regulation, aggressive enforcement, data localization, weak intellectual-property protection and slow legal... (more story)

MLex Summary: Bulgaria has been told to comply with the EU's digital services law and empower its national authorities to enforce it within two months or face a possible formal warning that it is violating the... (more story)

An EU proposal for US tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft to use “voluntary conciliation” in disputes over telecom network fees is unlikely to be used in practice, a key EU lawmaker said ... (more story)

Reddit’s challenge to Australia’s under-16 social media ban should be rejected despite uncertainty about the evidence linking social media use to harm, the government has told the country’s top court. In a rec... (more story)