MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been told by France's competition authority to restart negotiations with French press publishers claiming remuneration for their content appearing on the social media giant's s... (more story)

China's top legislature heard candid testimony recently on why the country still lacks a unified national market despite years of effort. Officials cited inconsistent enforcement, outdated laws, entrenched loc... (more story)

Meta Platforms must negotiate with press publishers over remuneration for using their content and provide them with the necessary information, according to interim measures adopted on Wednesday by the French c... (more story)

China's patent regulator has clarified the standards for evaluating post-filed experimental data in pharmaceutical patent challenges, citing a landmark Pfizer drug patent case to explain how such evidence shou... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has upheld the rejection of a patent application for technology designed to make robots appear more lifelike by simulating subtle involuntary human eye movements, findi... (more story)

Book authors accusing Salesforce of illegally using a pirated online dataset to train its artificial intelligence tools want to search documents from Chief Executive Marc Benioff and other senior executives, a... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Commerce, in accordance with a June 29 emergency declaration from President Donald Trump, will temporarily lift the antisubsidy duty order on Moroccan phosphate fertilizers.

MLex Summary: The US Department of Commerce preliminarily determined that producers and exporters of carbon and alloy steel wire rods from Algeria were subsidized.

The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation should be overhauled to better address systematic Chinese subsidies in sectors such as metals, the director general of industry group European Metals told MLex. James Wats... (more story)

The European Commission told the EU's highest court on Tuesday that Belgium’s legislation that allows payments to artists and performers goes beyond what’s allowed under EU law, undermines the bloc's harmonize... (more story)

MLex Summary: A California federal judge denied all of five of Meta Platforms' motions seeking to restrict attorneys general from California and three other states from introducing evidence in a trial set to b... (more story)

Major online platforms, including Google, Meta Platforms, Naver and Kakao, will be required to establish self-regulatory policies for handling false or manipulated information and publish related reports every... (more story)