Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: Brazil’s antitrust authority has closed its administrative inquiry into Adyen do Brasil — an investigation launched after Banco Safra and Safrapay accused the payments company of refusing to cont... (more story)

MLex Summary: Two unnamed food-retail companies in Latvia have received surprise visits on suspicion of coordinating prices for goods. The raids were carried out at the end of February with the help of the sta... (more story)

MLex Summary: Companies active in the "road signage and street furniture" sectors are under investigation at the Belgian competition authority, with dawn raids being carried out. In a statement, the regulator ... (more story)

Tech and automotive groups are urging EU officials to amend its IP enforcement law to rein in patent injunctions — clashing with patent holders, who warn reforms could weaken innovation as Brussels weighs comp... (more story)

A Tokyo District Court dismissed a damages suit against Recruit, a major human resources and consumer services conglomerate, over its “Air Cash” merchant funding service, rejecting both a business method paten... (more story)

Puma has won a key appeal after China’s top court ruled that a sneaker design patent conflicts with the German sportswear maker’s iconic Formstrip trademarks, overturning earlier decisions that had upheld the patent.

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department will issue antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders for Indian imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs following a final determination by the US ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Certain German imports of carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate were not sold at less than fair value in the US, the US Commerce Department said in the final results of an administrative review.

EU leaders will call for “targeted and proportional” European preference criteria in strategic sectors and technologies at their upcoming meeting, according to a document seen by MLex. They are set to discuss ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Brazil, Ireland, the Netherlands, Indonesia and Australia are among countries that have translated United Nations guidance on children’s rights in the digital age into binding rules, but adoption... (more story)

MLex Summary: Google and Epic Games have withdrawn a previously proposed modification to an injunction issued in federal antitrust litigation over Google's Play Store, according to a joint submission filed in ... (more story)

Meta Platforms challenged a psychiatrist’s diagnosis of "social media addiction" for Kayley, the 20-year-old plaintiff suing the company for harms caused by its allegedly addictive app designs, by contrasting ... (more story)