Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Fines may not be "appropriate" where enforcers are trying to "change market equilibrium" rather than sanction past breaches, UK judge Ian Forrester said. The jurist, who previously served as a UK judge at the ... (more story)

Korea Fair Trade Commission Chairman Ju Biung-ghi said Monday that the agency will continue enforcing competition law against foreign companies in a nondiscriminatory manner, and that any response to recent mo... (more story)

India’s antitrust watchdog has been cleared to pursue a liquor-cartel investigation after the Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that extensive state regulation doesn’t shield distillers from scrutiny over alleged bid rigging.

China’s top court has highlighted a ruling that protects the title of hit crime drama The Knockout as a commercial identifier, signaling that widely recognized television titles can be shielded from copycat ma... (more story)

Via LA has launched its DRAM data center patent pool with three of the field’s top 15 largest patent holders and is negotiating with most of the rest, President Kevin Mack told MLex. A second group of new memb... (more story)

The UK Intellectual Property Office recently invalidated UK trademark rights in “GPT” and “ChatGPT” while rejecting OpenAI’s bid to block ChainGPT LLC from registering its name there. The decision gives UK app... (more story)

MLex Summary: Chinese company Suzhou Carrey Intelligent Manufacturing will be subject to a 36.9 percent EU dumping duty on its exports of iron or steel fasteners, the European Commission said Monday, after acc... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU imports of alkyl phosphonic acids and their sodium salts originating in China will be subject to definitive dumping duties of up to 192.2 percent, the European Commission said on Monday. They ... (more story)

EU imports of alkyl phosphonic acids and their sodium salts from China will come under dumping duties ranging from 156.7 percent to 192.2 percent starting on Tuesday, the EU’s trade regulator has said. The mea... (more story)

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said antitrust and merger settlements have to be a part of the "tough enforcement choices" he has to make, because the FTC's budget is limited and striking ... (more story)

A US judge pushed Google toward faster and more meaningful cooperation with a technical committee charged with overseeing court-ordered remedies for the company’s monopolization of online search.

Dina Kallay, a deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, has left her role, MLex has learned.