Mastercard and Visa have failed in their bid to challenge a trial ruling focused on whether inflated payment card fees were passed on from retailers to consumers. The payment-card giants are being sued by a th... (more story)

MLex Summary: Mastercard and Visa have failed in their bid to appeal a UK trial ruling focused on whether inflated payment card fees were passed on from retailers to consumers, the Competition Appeal Tribunal ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Apple has failed in its bid to strike out part of a mass damages suit alleging consumer overcharge from its iCloud service, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled by majority. Consumer-rights ... (more story)

Vietnam’s government is launching a nationwide campaign to crack down on intellectual property infringements, just days after the Office of the US Trade Representative placed the country in the most severe cla... (more story)

MLex Summary: Nvidia must face infringement allegations that it illegally used copyrighted works to train AI models, including allegations related to its Megatron 345M model and those related to the use of sha... (more story)

MLex summary: Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, McGraw Hill and Macmillan, along with author Scott Turow, have sued Meta and its founder Mark Zuckerberg in New York federal court, for copyright infringement in art... (more story)

The European Commission is looking into a bid made by Chinese renewable energy business Blue Whale Bioenergy to grant it new exporting producer treatment, or NEPT, on its exports of biodiesel made in China to ... (more story)

EU foreign ministers will on Monday advance talks on possibly suspending the legal framework for Israel's trade with the EU, a European Commission official told lawmakers on Wednesday. They discussed a call to... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU dumping tariffs on imports of acesulfame potassium from China are set to expire on Jan. 29, 2027, the European Commission said Wednesday. EU producers can request a review of the planned expir... (more story)

MLex Summary: Europe’s mobile operators will need to invest about €475 billion over the next decade to bring the region’s networks up to the standards of global 5G leaders, but market conditions are likely to ... (more story)

MLex Summary: South Korea aims to expand pilot programs applying post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, across key infrastructure in 2026, including telecommunications, finance, transportation, defense and space, ... (more story)

Indamedia’s acquisition of Ringier Hungary has come under investigation after the Hungarian competition authority opened a post-closing review, citing new information on the deal. The move follows criticism fr... (more story)