Microsoft has urged the UK's Competition and Markets Authority not to single out its business software operations for tighter regulation, arguing that it faces strong competition across all of the markets unde... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ plan to relaunch its Threads micro-blogging service in Turkey is compliant with antitrust commitments it made in 2024, the Turkish competition authority said on Tuesday. The socia... (more story)

MLex Summary: YKK, a major global fastening-products manufacturer, received a corrective recommendation from the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday after the regulator found that the Japan-based company se... (more story)

Japan’s patent office will launch a pilot program in July allowing companies to time patent examination around technical standard setting activity, creating a new route for applicants whose patent filings are ... (more story)

Two decades of patent reform have not diminished their value nor lessened the need for litigation, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research. Instead, Kirti Gupta and Shane Oka say how innovators saf... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday. Starmer won the general election in 2024 with the Labour Party by a landslide after over two decades of administration by the Conservative P... (more story)

EU companies wishing to complain to the European Commission about unfair treatment in foreign public-procurement markets have been reluctant to do so for fear of retaliation, according to Agata Gerba, the head... (more story)

The US Soybean Export Council is optimistic that China will honor soybean purchase commitments reached in previous US-China trade talks, its chief executive told MLex on Tuesday, citing shipments of old-crop s... (more story)

MLex Summary:  The World Trade Organization's Committee on Balance of Payments Restrictions held consultations with the US to address the US's imposition of 10 percent Section 122 tariffs, which are set to expire July 24. 

MLex Summary: Social media platforms such as Meta Platform’s Instagram and Facebook and video platforms such as YouTube and Netflix could be required to make public service content more prominent in the UK und... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta must strengthen protections for non-public figures who are targets of sexualized deepfakes, since they in particular often carry the burden to self-report, Meta’s Oversight Board said on Tue... (more story)

MLex Summary: Live Nation and Ticketmaster's challenge to a US federal court’s jury instructions isn't grounds for a new trial, 33 US states and the District of Columbia said in opposing the companies' motion ... (more story)