MLex Summary: Euro Car Parks is to be investigated over whether its practices and appeals process are in breach of consumer protection law, the UK antitrust regulator said as it unveiled a package of action fo... (more story)

MLex Summary: It's for a national court to scrutinize the compliance of FIFA's rules on football agents with EU competition law, the EU's top judges said Thursday. The Court of Justice described football's gov... (more story)

MLex Summary: Business emails can be seized by antitrust enforcers during a raid without the need for prior authorization by a judge, according to the EU's top court. But it said that such an approach must be ... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has held that a former Nidec employee was liable under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act for leaking confidential company documents to a journalist, but dismissed t... (more story)

Meta Platforms' decision to license patents covering the AV1 video codec could reshape the debate over whether the technology is genuinely royalty-free and lend support to the long-established framework for li... (more story)

The US Copyright Office’s 43 percent average increase in fees, set to go into effect this fall, makes up for recent inflation and fee levels that haven’t adequately offset the office’s costs since the last adj... (more story)

MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said at a press conference on Thursday that it may adjust temporary helium export controls as domestic and international supply and demand change. Responding to a que... (more story)

MLex Summary: China and the Netherlands agreed that both governments should create favorable conditions for companies to resolve commercial disputes through negotiations, following recent talks between Chinese... (more story)

MLex Summary: Imports of solid glass microspheres, known as "glass beads,'' from China into the European Union are now under investigation over whether the products might have been unfairly priced, the Europea... (more story)

MLex Summary: Gaps in age assurance are leaving children exposed to harmful content on social media and able to find porn sites without checks, UK regulator Ofcom said in a landmark report Thursday. The watchd... (more story)

MLex Summary: TikTok is at the center of a new investigation by UK media regulator Ofcom. In a statement published on Thursday, Ofcom said it would check whether the platform sufficiently protects child users ... (more story)

Hong Kong has no plans to legislate a ban or restrictions on social-media use by minors, the city's tech chief said, citing concerns about enforcement challenges and potential damage to the city's technology e... (more story)