Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Mastercard and Visa’s successful bid for permission to challenge a UK ruling that their card fees violate competition rules offers them a route to try to push back down heightened risk from years of card-fee l... (more story)

MLex Summary: Anna M. Gomez, a commissioner on the US Federal Communications Commission, said the merger of local TV giants Nexstar and Tegna “was approved behind closed doors with no open process, no full Com... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Dutch competition authority has said it will further suspend enforcement of its antitrust order that Apple reduce its fees for dating apps on the App Store. It cited ongoing negotiations unde... (more story)

Critical works, consisting of a version of a work in the public domain accompanied by original commentary, fall under copyright protection, the EU’s highest court has said. But the decision could undermine exi... (more story)

Chinese electronic-components maker Shenzhen Sunlord Electronics has gained ground in its long-running patent dispute with Japan’s Murata Manufacturing, securing a fresh round of favorable decisions invalidati... (more story)

MLex Summary: Nokia has dropped its US patent claims accusing Warner Bros. Discovery of infringing on patents related to encoding and delivering high quality video over the internet, and Warner has agreed to d... (more story)

MLex Summary: Bahrain's Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill B.S.C. filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade challenging the Commerce Department's February review of an antidumping order on common alloy a... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indian producer Atlas Stainless Corporate Private Limited filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's February review of an antidumping order on st... (more story)

MLex Summary: Hyundai Steel Company filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade contesting a February Commerce Department review of an antisubsidy order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea.

MLex Summary: New UK rules should open up to 10 GHz of additional spectrum for satellite gateway stations, mainly in rural areas, telecom regulator Ofcom said in a statement, adding that it would consult on ex... (more story)

Upcoming reforms to the EU’s antitrust framework needs to include provision for national watchdogs to mount joint cross-border investigations, senior Belgian Competition Authority official Damien Gerard told M... (more story)

MLex Summary: Children in the UK widely use multiple digital devices, social media and video platforms — often under parental supervision and subject to family rules — but they display mixed understanding of r... (more story)