House of Raeford, Prestage, Foster Farms and Perdue received preliminary settlement approval from a US judge Thursday, resolving long-running antitrust claims brought by consumers over the alleged price-fixing... (more story)

Epic Games has launched its app store in Brazil following Apple’s settlement with the country’s competition authority, but the rollout has ignited criticism over the scope of the agreed remedies, particularly ... (more story)

MLex Summary: A UK probe of suspected anticompetitive conduct in waste management services will continue to gather evidence until December, the antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Markets Authority s... (more story)

The UPC this week saw a major injunction against Disney, and the end of a long-standing dispute between Ericsson and AsusTek. Judges decided on a slew of access requests, blocking a German law firm from seeing... (more story)

China's top intellectual property regulator has outlined a five-year strategy that shifts the country's intellectual property agenda beyond filing volumes toward innovation quality and emerging technologies, s... (more story)

Japan is reviving standard-essential patent enforcement through a centuries-old court mediation tradition, offering patent owners and implementers a low-cost route to global licensing while testing how far jud... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department's determination that certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made in China that underwent sizing, treating and finishing... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU steel producers and users have until Sept. 30 to comment on whether the bloc’s steel import regulation should be expanded to cover certain pipes, wires and forged bars. The measure limits duty... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU and Canada made substantial progress during the third round of negotiations on their planned digital trade agreement. Talks advanced on key provisions including cross-border data flows, pr... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK Ministry of Defence’s 2022 data breach — the leak of a spreadsheet containing detailed personal information from more than 18,500 Afghan relocation applications — was a foreseeable systemi... (more story)

Hugging Face, a popular platform for hosting open-source AI models, is under EU scrutiny after a research report alleged that it facilitates access to tools capable of generating non-consensual intimate images... (more story)

MLex Summary: Pornography website Escort Advisor will be blocked for Italian users until it complies with child protection regulations, the country’s media and communications watchdog said on Wednesday. Parent... (more story)