MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission said Diversity Lab, a for-profit diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consultancy, has permanently ceased operations following an FTC investigation into anticompe... (more story)

MLex Summary: Three telecommunications operators and one consulting company received fines totalling €13,351,000 from the Portuguese competition authority for having agreed to the insertion of advertising as a... (more story)

Competition policy stakeholders calling for new regulatory frameworks for AI would do well to remember US antitrust laws are adaptable to handle innovative technologies, a California Department of Justice enforcer said.

Methodologies for valuing fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory standard-essential patent licenses are improving but remain hampered by evidentiary limitations, disputed assumptions and divergent judicial app... (more story)

A timely US House Judiciary IP subcommittee hearing this week underscored the divide over the ability — and some say obligation — of Congress to speed cheaper generic and biosimilar drugs to the market.

Establishment Labs withdrew the UK portion of its case against GC Aesthetics at the Unified Patent Court, opting instead to litigate UK-specific issues in parallel national proceedings. A recent Court of Appea... (more story)

A nonprofit legal group has no standing to compel US Customs and Border Protection to investigate whether cocoa products from the Ivory Coast are made with forced labor, an appeals court ruled Friday.

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a network of individuals, entities and vessels responsible for shipping hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth ... (more story)

The Trump administration is accelerating its trade enforcement across several agencies as it pushes for stricter oversight on tariff evasion while utilizing bipartisan support on Capitol Hill to increase expor... (more story)

The EU needs a dedicated instrument to reduce dependence on single suppliers in critical sectors, the bloc’s trade chief Maroš Šefčovič has said. The debate is expected to be taken up by EU leaders at a summit... (more story)

A technology partnership similar to the UK's agreement with the US could form part of a broader effort to deepen EU-UK ties, the UK's business and trade minister has said. The EU and UK are preparing for a sum... (more story)

The EU should deepen rather than loosen its technology ties with the US as both sides seek to compete with China in critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, US Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder ... (more story)