The EU’s highest court will decide whether class actions backed by certain kinds of litigation financing risk undermining the effectiveness of the bloc’s antitrust laws. In a new case stemming from Portugal, t... (more story)

Apple has failed to kill off part of a UK mass damages suit over iCloud that targets those who used the cloud computing service but didn’t pay anything for it. The tech company is being sued at the Competition... (more story)

The way Amazon manages prices across its internet platform is under scrutiny at the European Commission to ensure the company is complying with restrictions on digital gatekeepers. The regulator has sent infor... (more story)

The UK's intellectual property authority appears still to be hoping for lawmakers to be able to consider a proposal for it to gain new powers to seize goods and monitor financial accounts before lawmakers brea... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s PCT Informed Examination Request (PIER) pilot program takes a unique approach to reducing pendency in international patent applications that reach the national stage in the... (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)

US Customs and Border Protection announced an antidumping duty evasion investigation and interim measures for multiple importers and two electric golf cart manufacturers under the Enforce and Protect Act.

Targeted EU deals on clean trade and investment should be made binding to strengthen ties with trade partners and ensure scrutiny by lawmakers and NGOs, former WTO chief Pascal Lamy has told EU lawmakers. Some... (more story)

The European Commission will reflect on whether its current trade defense measures are sufficient to address the imbalance of Chinese industrial production, outgoing director general of the commission’s trade ... (more story)

Aylo will again allow unregistered UK users to access its adult-content platform Pornhub if they verify their age through Apple’s device-level checks, partially reversing restrictions introduced earlier this y... (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)

China’s top internet regulator has renewed its crackdown on what it called “chaos” in artificial intelligence applications, expanding scrutiny of the fast-growing sector to include emerging risks such as AI da... (more story)