MLex Summary: Norfolk Southern Railway, CSX Transportation, BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad told a US appeals court that a summary judgment against US price-fixing claims was the right call by the lowe... (more story)

MLex Summary: Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi announced during a speech that the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division has begun signing onto "reasonable timing agreements" with merging pa... (more story)

Zillow and Redfin must face antitrust claims from the US Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general that Redfin agreed to stop competing for multifamily rental listings and leads in exchange for a $1... (more story)

Sisvel is seeking companies to join an Ultra Ethernet patent pool and expanding its POS licensing program, while Nokia highlighted broad licensing deals in China. Longhorn IP continued to add to its digital pa... (more story)

Despite lengthy comments from numerous IP stakeholders, standard essential patent (SEP) policy issues got little attention in the Office of US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report on IP trade. But ... (more story)

A decade after its enactment, the Defend Trade Secrets Act has become the dominant vehicle for trade secret enforcement in the US. Practitioners say the statute has brought consistency to a once-fragmented are... (more story)

MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump threatened to increase tariffs on European Union states to “much higher levels” if the EU does not fulfill conditions of the 2025 Turnberry agreement to his satisfaction... (more story)

The US government has ramped up Section 232 enforcement in 2026, particularly against European imports, potentially complicating a relative détente on trade between the US and Europe that includes a new cooper... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU and Japan pledged to deepen trade and supply chain cooperation at their 7th High-Level Economic Dialogue in Brussels on Thursday, as both sides warned against economic coercion, rising exp... (more story)

Meta Platforms is challenging the regulations underpinning Ofcom’s fee regime for services regulated under the UK Online Safety Act, arguing that the methodology used to calculate fees and potential penalties ... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers reached an agreement on amendments to the EU's AI law, including a new ban on AI-generated intimate content, a more centralized governance framework, and changes to how the regulatio... (more story)

EU lawmakers agreed on amendments to the bloc’s flagship AI law, including a new ban on AI-generated intimate content, a delay in applying rules to AI systems with high-risk use cases, and changes to how the r... (more story)