Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Paramount argued in a reply to an amended complaint that a group of consumers did not have standing to challenge either of the company's mergers with Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. The comp... (more story)

Mexico’s competition authority is lately changing the markets it prioritizes and pursuing more actions on behalf of consumers, National Antitrust Commission Chair Andrea Marván Saltiel said.

MLex Summary: A US judge released a redacted version of an order granting Cumulus Media New Holdings' motion to enforce a preliminary antitrust injunction against the Nielsen company. In the now-public order, ... (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)

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)

MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the Commerce Department's determination that the coalition which petitioned for antidumping duty orders on oil country tubular goods fro... (more story)

MLex Summary: Moroccan firm OPC S.A. filed an appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to contest the Court of International Trade's July ruling sustaining the International Trade Commission... (more story)

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)

A gap in international cooperation arrangements for Digital Markets Act-style rules makes coordination “worth thinking about,” a European Commission official said. Linsey McCallum said existing frameworks do n... (more story)

Meta Platforms is due to get a decision on Oct. 29 on its appeal against orders from France's competition watchdog to negotiate a payment system for using journalistic content with two media organisations "in ... (more story)