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Patent pools shape SEP licensing choices in court disputes

Independent auditor overseeing US Meta compliance seen as linchpin to deal

Belgian moves on ratifying EU-Canada trade deal put focus on other holdouts

Meta settles US addictive algorithm cases, will alter platforms, pay up to $17bn

US-Canada rift casts shadow on global trade deals

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Antitrust, Technology

August 27, 2026 | Alex Wilts

North America

Epic Games notes no concerns with rollout of Google's US Play Store remedy

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

August 27, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Sysco-Restaurant Depot deal draws scrutiny as FTC queries third parties
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security

August 26, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Amy Miller

North America

AI chatbots offer next front for US state AGs following Meta settlement
Epic Games notes no concerns with rollout of Google's US Play Store remedy
Sysco-Restaurant Depot deal draws scrutiny as FTC queries third parties
AI chatbots offer next front for US state AGs following Meta settlement

Antitrust View More

BASF, Syngenta, others probed in Turkey over possible data exchange

August 28, 2026

Middle East

MLex Summary: Several companies active in the plant protection and nutrition products market, including BASF Agricultural Solutions, Syngenta and Nufarm are under investigation into whether they exchanged sens... (more story)

Heating oil customers to be compensated, UK’s antitrust regulator says

August 28, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Hundreds of UK heating oil consumers are set to receive compensation from suppliers after their orders were canceled following price spikes amid the conflict in the Middle East, the country's ant... (more story)

South Korean food-cartel appeals test KFTC's leniency decision, pricing remedy

August 28, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee

Asia

South Korea’s competition regulator is facing court scrutiny over its handling of leniency and a rarely used price-redetermination remedy in separate food-cartel appeals. TS Corporation is challenging the Kore... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft urge govts to boost defenses against AI cyber attacks

August 28, 2026

Europe, Latin America, North America

MLex Summary: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic are among more than 100 organizations that have signed an open letter calling on governments and industry to strengthen cyber defenses against AI-enabled a... (more story)

China cautions local governments against indiscriminate robotics investment

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China is warning local governments against blindly rushing into robotics projects, calling for the industry to develop in a healthy and orderly manner based on local resources and industrial stre... (more story)

Singapore launches liquid cooling standard for tropical data centers

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Singapore on Thursday launched SS 726:2026, which it said is the world’s first national standard for liquid cooling in tropical data centers, as AI workloads drive higher power densities and cool... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

China names Liu Guiping new SAMR party chief, replacing Luo Wen

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Liu Guiping has been appointed the new party secretary of China's State Administration for Market Regulation, the country’s top market regulator said in a statement Friday. Liu previously served ... (more story)

Solstice Advanced Materials, Element Solutions terminate merger agreement

August 27, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. and Element Solutions Inc. entered into an agreement to terminate their previously announced merger. No fees are payable by either party as a result of the termin... (more story)

Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern urge US rail board to continue evaluating deal

August 27, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Union Pacific Railroad and its acquisition target, Norfolk Southern Railway, urged the US Surface Transportation Board to deny requests from opponents of their proposed merger who are seeking early dismissal o... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

EU lawmakers' digital simplification amendments show divide over privacy

August 28, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

EU lawmakers have totted up more than 1,800 proposed amendments in their review of the EU's Digital Omnibus, intended to simplify the bloc's digital rulebooks. They show divisions over the definition of person... (more story)

China, Southeast Asian countries seek deeper cybersecurity cooperation

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China and Southeast Asian countries are seeking deeper practical cooperation on cybersecurity and stronger regional cyber defenses, China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical ... (more story)

China court in Guangzhou issues guidance on foreign electronic-data evidence

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s Guangzhou Internet Court Wednesday issued practical guidance on handling electronic evidence generated or stored abroad in foreign-related civil and commercial cases. The 15-question guid... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Chagee secures trademark victory over lookalike milk-tea branding in China

August 28, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

A Chinese court has ruled that owning registered trademarks doesn’t shield a business from infringement claims when it alters or combines them in ways that create confusion with an established brand.

Japan rights holders say private piracy enforcement has hit its limits

August 28, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan's music and publishing industries are pressing the government for stronger tools to combat online piracy, arguing that private enforcement is struggling to keep pace with operators that can shift domains... (more story)

China to open up government IP data for AI, commercial use

August 28, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China will expand access to and commercial use of government-held intellectual-property data, using it to train industry-specific artificial intelligence models, support financing and corporate research and in... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US SEC plan to cut company filings met with flood of protests

August 27, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to reduce company financial disclosure requirements from quarterly to twice a year has been met with overwhelming opposition from commenters, a study has fo... (more story)

Former Goldman partner's forfeiture order signed by US judge

August 27, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Judge Margo Brodie signed a final forfeiture order for former Goldman Sachs partner Tim Leissner, who pleaded guilty to foreign bribery and other charges over his role in a corruption and embe... (more story)

Sports company co-owners admit in US to fraud scheme involving FIFA media rights

August 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Europe, North America

A father and son who co-own an Argentine sports marketing company admitted Thursday in a New York federal court to participating in a fraud scheme involving bribes to soccer officials to obtain media rights to... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US bank regulators adopt rule to shift supervisory attention to basic risks

August 27, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US bank regulators finalized an industry-friendly rule to shift supervisory attention toward underlying fundamental risks and away from bank processes for managing those risks. The rule also imposes a material... (more story)

Lawyer for US Fed's Cook says allegations against her 'untried and unproven'

August 27, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's lawyer told the White House that its latest threat to oust her relies on "untried and unproven allegations of criminal wrongdoing." "Governor Cook has never committed mo... (more story)

Bank of England to get new payments innovation objective from UK govt

August 27, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK government on Thursday announced plans to give the Bank of England a new responsibility to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms of digital money. This secondary objecti... (more story)

Trade View More

US Commerce says China dumping, subsidizing van-type trailers

August 28, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said in a final determination that China is dumping and subsidizing imports of van-type trailers. Commerce assigned a 134.75 percent subsidy rate to all Chinese produce... (more story)

US trailer industry seeks antidumping duties on Mexican, Canadian, Chinese imports

August 27, 2026 | Zack Budryk

North America

Representatives of the American trailer industry argued in support of antidumping and countervailing duties on van-type trailers from Mexico, Canada and China at a US International Trade Commission hearing Thu... (more story)

US Commerce opens dumping, subsidy probe into Indian perfluoroalkoxy alkane

August 27, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated an antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into perfluoroalkoxy alkane imports from India.

State Aid View More

Italy's €285m plan to offset fuel, fertilizer price hikes wins EU approval

August 28, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies active in agriculture, fisheries or aquaculture suffering from increased fuel and fertilizer prices due to the crisis in the Middle East will be eligible for direct grants and tax advan... (more story)

Germany wins EU approval for €75m aid to Stadion Oldenburg

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany has won approval for its plan to grant 75 million euros to Stadion Oldenburg for the construction and operation of a stadium for football and other sports, the European Commission said on... (more story)

EU probe into Post Danmark capital injection now open for feedback

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback as part of its ongoing investigation into a capital injection made by PostNord into its Post Danmark subsidiary in 2017. The commission opened an in-de... (more story)

Energy View More

EU maritime carbon-market review must balance decarbonization and competitiveness

August 28, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

The EU's maritime Emissions Trading System review seeks to make shipping cleaner without pushing activity away from European ports, but its design may pull those goals in opposite directions. Industry and envi... (more story)

Climate litigation boom makes states’ obligations clear, corporate ones less so

August 26, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Climate litigation is increasingly defining governments' and companies' obligations as climate science and legal precedents develop. While landmark cases have helped entrench the duties that states have and pr... (more story)

EU Commission points to national powers amid calls for bloc-wide oil windfall tax

August 25, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Windfall profit taxes remain a matter for EU countries to decide using their national fiscal powers, the European Commission said after six countries called for an EU-wide framework to tax oil companies' excep... (more story)

Technology View More

Meta should be fined €250m for Facebook scam ads, Polish minister tells EU

August 28, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys

Europe

Meta Platforms should be fined €250 million by the EU for failing to tackle online scam ads on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in Poland, the country's digital affairs minister has said in a letter to the... (more story)

Roblox tightens child-safety safeguards in Philippines

August 28, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: The Philippines’ Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center on Friday said Roblox has agreed to strengthen safeguards against child grooming, radicalization and extremist infiltration. Meas... (more story)

Australian law firm probes social-media harm class action after Meta settlement

August 28, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: An Australian law firm has announced that it is working with US lawyer Mark Lanier to investigate potential action against Meta Platforms and other social-media companies following Meta’s settlem... (more story)