Six companies in Germany ran a cartel rigging bids for asphalt-surfacing contracts, often using codewords related to beer, sausage and football matches to agree prices, the national competition authority has s... (more story)

A top Chinese government advisor has called on mainland and Hong Kong antitrust regulators to strengthen procedural coordination. The recommendations from Huang Yong address governance gaps as Beijing advances... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korean medical device maker Ceragem has been fined 432 million won ($303,000) by the country’s competition regulator for unlawfully obtaining and transferring subcontractors’ technical data... (more story)

China has overhauled its integrated circuit layout-design regulations for the first time in more than two decades, expanding protection to emerging chip technologies while tightening registration and enforcement rules.

Nintendo's Delhi High Court victory reinforces India's expanding protection for well-known trademarks, preventing their use in unrelated sectors where corporate names could imply a false commercial association.

Trademark owners are leveraging what's known as "Schedule A" litigation to reach successor accounts and online intermediaries as they seek remedies that increasingly resemble the dynamic blocking regimes available abroad.

MLex Summary: Chinese mineral companies should immediately halt audits, training, fee payments, data submissions and other cooperation involving the US-headquartered global industry coalition Responsible Busin... (more story)

MLex Summary: Imports of lightweight thermal paper from China will be subject to temporary tariffs of up to 70.5 percent at EU borders to tackle government subsidies, the European Commission said in a formal n... (more story)

Imports of lightweight thermal paper originating in China will be subject to provisional duties of up 70.5 percent to counter subsidization, the European Commission said Thursday. The move follows a probe that... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korea’s three major telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus — have revised terms of service that the country’s competition regulator found unfairly limited their liability for perso... (more story)

TikTok has agreed in principle to settle three more individual lawsuits brought by young app users that accuse the app of harming the plaintiffs’ mental health ahead of scheduled trials in October. 

Amazon must change how it presents information about recommender systems, content moderation and illegal-content reporting under the Digital Services Act, following a German court ruling that partly favored th... (more story)