Hong Kong's Competition Commission is recommending prison sentences of at least seven years and potentially up to 10 years for serious bid-rigging cases, marking a significant escalation in penalties after a d... (more story)

Epic Games and Google have received draft approval from Australia's competition watchdog for a global settlement to their long-running antitrust dispute. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission said t... (more story)

Visa, Mastercard and American Express have warned that the new interchange-fee caps proposed by New Zealand’s antitrust watchdog could reduce competition and innovation while failing to lower costs for consume... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has rejected a web novelist's copyright appeal against publisher SB Creative, finding that the alleged similarities in characters, story elements and other features bet... (more story)

China has stepped up its campaign against patent-agency misconduct, with 21 newly published penalty decisions showing how regulators are increasingly targeting the intermediaries that facilitate bad-faith pate... (more story)

South Korean music technology startup Neutune is developing AI infrastructure that identifies the component-level contributions of copyrighted works used to generate new music, aiming to enable transparent rig... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a 12-week public consultation to assess whether the EU's Dual-Use Regulation, which governs exports of goods and technologies that can be used for both civilian... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU sees no immediate threat to its oil supply despite renewed hostilities in the Middle East and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following a meeting of the Oil Coordination Group, an EU... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has ordered customs authorities to register imports of certain aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters from China as part of its ongoing anti-dumping investigation, allowing any d... (more story)

MLex Summary: TikTok has breached the EU's Digital Services Act by failing to provide a sufficiently high level of privacy, safety and security for minors through its default account settings, the European Com... (more story)

TikTok's default account settings for minors breach the EU's Digital Services Act because they fail to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security for children, the European Commission said in prelimin... (more story)

South Korea’s revised Network Act may have little immediate operational impact on companies such as Google, Meta, Naver and Kakao, but it marks a significant step toward assigning online platforms greater resp... (more story)