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MLex Summary: The Slovak union of refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump providers has been fined €140,000 ($160,000) over cartel deals, the country’s competition watchdog said on Monday. In a Sept. 18 ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Indonesia's competition regulator has agreed in principle to accept behavioral commitments proposed by three online automotive marketplace companies accused of discriminatory practices, but has r... (more story)

Coupang’s mounting legal challenges to South Korea’s antitrust investigations have drawn criticism from lawmakers across the political divide, who are now weighing a joint parliamentary response and possible l... (more story)

China’s Guangzhou intellectual property authority has ordered three businesses to stop selling earphones that infringe a Huawei industrial-design patent and keep remaining inventory off the market, highlightin... (more story)

Lawyers who followed last week’s en banc rehearing in a copyright plaintiff’s appeal of an adverse jury verdict say the US Ninth Circuit appears open to revising an intrinsic test for substantial similarity. A... (more story)

Apple must propose how it will disclose internal information about the strategy behind its Via LA patent license, including whether the deal was structured to push a future fair, reasonable and nondiscriminato... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU dumping duties on imports of wire rod from China are undergoing an expiry review to determine whether their removal would lead to a recurrence of dumping and injury, the European Commission sa... (more story)

China’s Ministry of Commerce said the EU and China had agreed on what it described as an “upward arrangement” for hybrid-vehicle trade using 2025 as the baseline, when the bloc imported 302,000 Chinese hybrids... (more story)

MLex Summary: China has warned that it will take necessary countermeasures if the US and other economies adopt measures harming Chinese interests under the pretext of addressing industrial overcapacity, the Mi... (more story)

Instagram’s Instants feature didn't meet the threshold requiring an additional risk assessment under the EU’s digital services law, Meta Platforms has said, adding that it reviewed the risks and briefed the Eu... (more story)

Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care, expected to be introduced in parliament this week, faces demands by the Greens for compensation rights and fines tied to tech companies’ global revenue. The duty-of-c... (more story)

MLex Summary: Six European and national industry groups representing companies including Iliad, Digi, Colt Technology Services and 1&1 have formed the Digital Networks Alliance for Europe, or DNA Europe, accor... (more story)