MLex Summary: Approval by a UK court of the settlement agreed by Google in a collective lawsuit over damage to app developers from its Play Store fees has been hailed as a "historic ruling" by the claim leader... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Google-targeted claim over app store fees brought on behalf of developers has led to the approval of a £260 million settlement between the litigants, according to consumer rights organization C... (more story)

MLex Summary: Cyprus judge Savvas Papasavvas has been elected as the President of the EU's General Court and will serve out the remainder of outgoing president Marc van der Woude's term until the end of August... (more story)

The online streaming giant faces a UPC injunction across 18 European countries after judges found its streaming software infringed a DivX patent. The Munich court upheld the patent, rejected Netflix’s invalidi... (more story)

Japan’s Supreme Court will rule next month on whether tort law can stop a business from deliberately copying and commercially exploiting a product that copyright law does not protect.

The EU and Canada plan to deepen cooperation beyond their CETA trade agreement, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, proposing an “Alliance for the Future” focused on technology, ... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers have adopted rules to reform the EU's customs framework that will make non-EU e-commerce platforms responsible for customs formalities and payments and introduce an EU-wide handling ... (more story)

EU carbon pricing and the 2035 zero-emission requirement for new cars came under fire from right-wing European Parliament groups after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union sp... (more story)

The EU will create a corporation to obtain and stockpile critical raw materials, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her annual State of the Union address, warning that the bloc’s €1 bil... (more story)

Social-media services would face rules preventing children under 13 from accessing them and those under 15 from holding unsupervised personal accounts under the EU’s forthcoming Kids Act, European Commission P... (more story)

Fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said she completely agrees with Republican FTC Commissioner Mark Meador that the agency’s Section 5 power to pursue action against unfair methods of com... (more story)

The US federal government has become an "unreliable enforcer" of antitrust law as the White House now directs the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and law enforcement is subject to political... (more story)