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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.

Felipe Leitão Valadares Roquete, the acting superintendent of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense, said the watchdog’s investigative arm plans to conclude a significant number of investigation... (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)

Japan’s Asahi Kasei, one of the country’s leading chemicals groups, said it will file civil claims against a Chinese chemicals company and a former employee arrested on suspicion of trade secret violations und... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Commerce Department’s ruling that the antidumping duty petition for oil country tubular goods from Argentina had proper industry backing.

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission voted in a final determination that allegedly dumped and subsidized oleoresin paprika from India has harmed the domestic industry.

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted to preliminarily determine that a domestic industry is materially injured by perfluoroalkoxy alkane imports from India. PFA is a key compon... (more story)

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

Proponents of the One Agency Act are “pretty unrealistic” about the magnitude of work that will be required to transfer the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust enforcement authority to the US Department of... (more story)

US state attorneys general are trying to undermine the Department of Justice when they seek alternative relief in antitrust cases where the agency has already struck a settlement, a top DOJ official said Thurs... (more story)