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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 27, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
February 27, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Antitrust
February 27, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Antitrust View More
February 28, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: T-Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group, HSBC Fintech, Siemens Digital Industries, PCCW and Airbus (China) Enterprise Management & Services - a subsidiary of Airbus, ar... (more story)
February 28, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Despite potential global regulatory shifts, Australia’s competition watchdog will continue to prioritize critical cases while being proportionate and effective with its enforcement approach, a senior official ... (more story)
February 28, 2025 | Khushita Vasant, Chris May and Mike Swift
North America
Employees working at the US Federal Trade Commission's leased office space in Washington, DC, have been told of a plan to relocate them, MLex has learned.
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 27, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Apple has failed to show that its proposed intervention in the US Department of Justice’s monopolization case against Google Search would have any purpose or meaningful limitation, the DOJ told a US appeals court.
February 27, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The intellectual property case pitting Getty Images against Stability AI could be significant enough to prompt legislation, the barrister for the image generator said at a case management hearing in London tod... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
The US Senate Judiciary Committee today overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Gail Slater to be the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 28, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
The planned acquisition of Covestro International by Abu Dhabi Oil Company has been filed for a merger review with South Korea’s competition regulator and is currently under review. The deal was submitted for ... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Africa, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Zimmer Biomet's acquisition of Paragon 28 was approved by the German Federal Cartel Office on Feb. 24, according to a filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies'... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Paychex and Paycor announced that the US premerger antitrust waiting period for their transaction expired. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the waiting period ex... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 28, 2025 | Jenny Lee
Asia
A group of 161 Facebook users in South Korea has recently appealed a court ruling that sided with Meta Platforms in a dispute over a major data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, court records s... (more story)
February 28, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
Jonathan McKernan, the nominee for US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, said he would stand up to the White House if it ordered him to fire too many employees of the agency’s older Americans offic... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Lawyers for the former Facebook faced a federal judge who didn't hide his impatience that seven years after the company's Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, a shareholder suit over whether Mark Zuckerberg and... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 27, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A Utah federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss Erica Fresh, sole operator of supplement company Shopping EZ, from a trademark infringement suit against the company, finding she may be held individually li... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Erica Fresh, sole operator of supplement company Shopping EZ, can be held individually liable for trademark infringement, a Utah federal judge said in denying Fresh's motion to dismiss. Axcess Gl... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: An Avago patent directed to eliminating latency during streaming was correctly canceled by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the US Court of Appeals for the Fede... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 27, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge today denied a motion to dismiss the government’s effort to seize a luxury condominium in a Trump Organization building in Manhattan allegedly purchased with stolen Congolese state assets. The compl... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In its annual earnings report, TD Bank provided an update about the improvements in its anti-money laundering compliance program since an October 2024 settlement with US authorities. The bank exp... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Former Worthington Group Chief Executive Douglas Ware knew that a top manager working with him repeatedly breached the watchdog's ban against him to act as company director, the Financial Conduct Authority's p... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission said that meme coin purchasers or holders do not need to register meme coin transactions with the commission, as they do not involve the offer and sale o... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has dismissed the ongoing civil enforcement action against Coinbase and Coinbase Global.
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex summary: Jonathan McKernan, the nominee for director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told the Senate Banking Committee at his confirmation hearing that the agency "suffers from a crisis of... (more story)
Trade View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission released a report calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensities of US steel and aluminum industries. The report was requested by the US Trade Re... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed a Court of International Trade ruling upholding a Customs and Border Protection determination that several importers of xanthan gum evaded an anti... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed a Court of International Trade ruling that upheld a Customs and Border Protection determination that several importers of xanthan gu... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company must feel its path to EU foreign-subsidy approval for its 14.7 billion-euro takeover of Germany's Covestro has been smoothed by the European Commission’s clearance of another lar... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria should win its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II nuclear power station, suggests an EU court opinion that was rel... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Government support to EU companies for green technologies will have an easier ride under a new plan today aimed at boosting domestic industries. EU commissioner Teresa Ribera signaled that markets were changin... (more story)
Energy View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Further action is needed to reduce methane emissions in Europe and globally, the European Environment Agency report says. Despite its decrease, methane emissions still account for 12 percent of a... (more story)
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson directed the agency to form a Joint Labor Task Force that will work to prioritize rooting out and prosecuting deceptive, unfair, and anticompetit... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission unveiled today its first “omnibus” legislative text aimed at cutting administrative costs for companies. But the proposal might face difficulties during the scrutiny process as member s... (more story)
Technology View More
February 27, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Apple believes age checks aren’t needed for most apps, so its App Store should not conduct blanket age verification, the company said in a white paper today. As age assurance and minor safety become an increas... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK’s data protection regulator and the online safety watchdog want to develop joint strategies to ensure women’s privacy is protected without undermining compliance with online safety rules, representative... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom regulator Ofcom is consulting on changes to the annual fees that mobile operators pay to use certain spectrum bands. The watchdog is proposing to reduce annual fees by 21 percent for t... (more story)