MLex Summary: A Dutch judge requested guidance from the EU higher-tier court on how to analyze the impact of resale price maintenance. The issue refers to a dispute between the Dutch competition authority and ... (more story)

Google is revamping the top of its search results in response to flight and hotel-booking queries in its latest bid to comply with an EU law regulating digital “gatekeepers,” MLex has learned. 

A Mastercard executive told an Australian court on Monday that securing debit-transaction volumes was an “important part” of major retailer agreements, as he faced a fourth day of questioning in an ongoing ant... (more story)

A senior executive at Beijing-based toy brand Pop Mart has said that the Chinese trademark authority should be more proactive in refusing bad-faith filings, as the country anticipates new legislation to address the issue.

The World Intellectual Property Organization is advancing AI-driven and operational reforms, including digital platforms and treaty updates, chief Daren Tang said. The aim is to modernize global IP systems, im... (more story)

Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked the US to provide “an objective and balanced assessment" of the progress the country has made in improving intellectual property protection, in response to the U... (more story)

MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce on Saturday blocked US sanctions targeting five Chinese petrochemical firms over alleged Iranian oil transactions, ordering domestic entities not to recognize or comp... (more story)

US manufacturer MAT Industries petitioned for antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on air compressors from China, Malaysia, and Vietnam, marking the first time air compressors have been subject to a duty investigation.

MLex Summary: The US State Department hailed a committee with the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization, which voted to consider an alternative proposal from a global carbon tax on emissions from... (more story)

Social media platform X is challenging the European Commission’s handling of evidence and process for allowing access to documents in its appeal against a landmark €120 million fine for breaking the bloc's dig... (more story)

MLex Summary: Details of X’s appeal against a €120 million Digital Services Act fine have been published in the EU’s Official Journal, showing that X and related parties are contesting both the substance of th... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission, joined by a group of 21 states, the District of Columbia and Alameda County, California, has filed a second amended complaint alleging that Uber Technologies viol... (more story)