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MultiPlan will have to answer interrogatories over whether specific executives chose to enable disappearing messages on their iPhones after being served a litigation hold in a case involving US antitrust claim... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Washington federal judge has rejected Amazon's request to push back a trial in the US Federal Trade Commission's monopolization case against the company to June 2027. In an order, US District J... (more story)

Andy Burnham has pledged to legislate to curtail non-compete clauses, which enable companies to restrict what employees can do after leaving their jobs. Some businesses have gone too far in their use of restri... (more story)

Lawyers who followed last week’s en banc rehearing in a copyright plaintiff’s appeal of an adverse jury verdict say the US Ninth Circuit appears open to revising an intrinsic test for substantial similarity. A... (more story)

Apple must propose how it will disclose internal information about the strategy behind its Via LA patent license, including whether the deal was structured to push a future fair, reasonable and nondiscriminato... (more story)

A Dutch court has barred Merck’s under-the-skin version of cancer drug Keytruda in eight European countries, upholding Halozyme’s drug-delivery patent and applying EU top court guidance allowing courts to issu... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice of determination of evasion of the Enforce and Protect Act for Chinese imports of seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Administration's Binational Panel of the NAFTA Secretariat upheld the Department of Commerce's affirmative redetermination on remand for imports of softwood lumber prod... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Friday mostly upheld the US Commerce Department’s latest remand of a review on an antisubsidy order of multilayered wood flooring from China.

Meta Platforms hasn't submitted a risk assessment to the European Commission for Instagram’s “Instants”, the commission told MLex on Friday, a few days after UK regulator Ofcom announced an investigation into ... (more story)

Social media platform X remains under EU investigation after almost three years because some probes are "technically challenging" and can be prolonged by continual changes to platforms’ services, the EU’s digi... (more story)

Ensuring that the EU doesn’t have risky dependencies in critical technologies — AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, space and cyber security — is one of the top goals for Henna Virkkunen, the European Commi... (more story)