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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford
North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government has warned that it may cut public funding for egg and pork producers’ associations and suspend their licenses if the country’s competition regulator confirms they have... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Google has been cleared of abuse allegations in India after the developer Zucol Solutions withheld facts, made inconsistent claims and ignored reinstatement of an account. The competition regulator said Google... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson said the agency is seeking public input on Hart-Scott-Rodino merger notification rules following a federal court decision vacating revised rules, which has rei... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Rita Lin has granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump Administration from declaring the artificial intelligence a supply-chain risk. She enjoi... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is not looking to bring “academic pie-in-the-sky theories” of harm and is instead focused on “day-to-day principles that apply in antitrust law,” a senior advisor to the head of... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Large content companies' attempts to claim a slice of the pie whenever other firms train large language models on their data feels like "rent-seeking," US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Thursday.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 27, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
An unusually divided US Federal Reserve voted to approve the acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s German-based securities and foreign trading unit by the banking giant’s New York-based national bank. The internal r... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Düsseldorf, Germany-based Henkel AG & Co., a manufacturer of consumer brands, has agreed to acquire New York-based Olaplex Holdings, a hair care company, for an equity value of about $1.4 billion... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Long-term reliance on pre-2025 US merger antitrust forms isn't sustainable, though national competition law enforcers are temporarily accepting this paperwork due to a court ruling enjoining the use of a new f... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 26, 2026 | Claude Marx
North America
Former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Thursday extolled the virtues of the agency’s bipartisan tradition and declined to discuss a “post-apocalyptic world” that could occur if s... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US State Department launched a $250 million fund for overseas critical minerals projects as part of a new fund, called Pax Silica, which has signed several countries to the effort already to ... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
With social media addiction in the headlines after juries in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, found Meta Platforms and Google liable for harming users, members of Congress are continuing their calls for r... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe, North America
A top EU official has defended her agency’s approval of cooperation between German carmakers over the licensing of technologies after the companies drew antitrust scrutiny from US regulators. She appeared to b... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Europe, North America
Licensing activity continued in several sectors, with developments including Access Advance's expansion of its video distribution patent pool and News/Media Alliance's deal to allow industry members to opt in ... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
An increase in sales of counterfeit goods could be an unintended consequence of US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, with consumers turning to knock-offs as prices rise. The footwear industry could be es... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed an administrative monetary penalty on Northern Isga Foundation — a nonprofit charitable organization authorized by the Ale... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Damen Shipyards Group said allegations of fraud and sanctions violations brought by Dutch prosecutors have had a “significant impact” on the company. Units of the conglomerate faces bribery and sanctions claim... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: At the joint request of the prosecution and the defense, a US judge rescheduled the corruption trial of former medical device company executive David Ferrera to May 2027. At his arraignment, the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 26, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission has warned four leading payment processors — Mastercard, Visa, PayPal and Stripe — about denying financial services based on political or religious views, a practice known as “d... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Transition Finance Council has released a set of guidelines to unlock transition finance, which is understood as the investment needed to help the decarbonization of high-emitting sectors.... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Prudential Regulation Authority finalized a package of changes to firms’ resolution reporting and disclosure requirements. The regulator said the UK’s resolution regime is designed to ensure ... (more story)
Trade View More
March 26, 2026
North America
Representatives for Orbia argued in favor of antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed with the US International Trade Commission for Chinese imports of lithium hexafluorophosphate Thursday.
March 26, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said in a final determination that Algeria is subsidizing steel concrete reinforcing bar. Commerce assigned a 72.94 percent subsidy rate to all Algerian producers.
March 26, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department said it will impose antidumping and antisubsidy duties on erythritol from China following an affirmative conclusion from the agency and the International Trade Commissi... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies investing in additional manufacturing capacity for the production of net-zero technologies and their main components will be eligible for direct grants under a Spanish regional plan wor... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Romanian law granting the rights to services guiding ships in and out of ports exclusively to public authorities could potentially amount to state aid, an opinion prepared for the EU’s top cour... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Belgian tax program that exempted certain "excess profits" of Belgian companies as being part of multinationals was correctly identified by the European Commission as illegal state aid, accordi... (more story)
Energy View More
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Concentrated clean-energy supply chains leave key technologies vulnerable to disruption, with China dominating most manufacturing steps and every major chain containing at least one weak link, an... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Plans for the EU to phase out Russian fossil fuels remain on track despite delays and political pressure, the bloc's energy chief, Dan Jørgensen, said as lawmakers clashed in debate over Russian energy depende... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
German carrier Deutsche Lufthansa voiced concerns over “competitive distortions” between EU and foreign airlines at a meeting with the bloc’s competition chief, according to minutes published on Wednesday. Luf... (more story)
Technology View More
March 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A senior Live Nation touring executive told jurors Thursday at a high-profile antitrust trial that the company will book artists to perform at a venue regardless of which vendor handles the facility’s ticketin... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
America needs to be a dominant player in the global artificial intelligence race, and should it fall behind, the US economy will be in "serious trouble," Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned Thursday.
March 26, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Netflix will see key legal questions in its challenge to a Wallonia-Brussels streaming levy — including its compatibility with the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive — decided at the EU level, after Bel... (more story)