South Korea’s antitrust regulator is expanding its economic-analysis operation into a standalone bureau next month, giving economists a broader role in market and policy research while retaining their core fun... (more story)

MLLex Summary: Epic Games and Google have received final approval from Australia's competition watchdog for certain key terms of a settlement resolving the companies' Australian litigation over Google Play ser... (more story)

Dialogue Consulting CEO Hugh Stephens faced questions on Friday about Sked Social’s small market share and his 2015 remarks that the service would “die” if Instagram opened its API, as the Australian company’s... (more story)

A Chinese court has protected a well-known real-estate brokerage mark against use for laundry services, finding that different trademark classifications don’t rule out a real-world connection based on where se... (more story)

MLex Summary: Inari was denied judgments of noninfringement regarding all US patent claims brought by Corteva over corn and soybean crops. District Judge John F. Murphy denied judgment as to all but five of Corteva's claims.

Pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk is “disappointed” in Germany’s top court ruling that its sample used by music producers falls into a copyright exception under a law that was reformed in 2021. But for uses... (more story)

MLex Summary: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is due to visit Greenland on Sept. 6-7 to deepen EU ties with the territory and discuss the Arctic’s growing strategic importance, the commissio... (more story)

China objected to four paragraphs of the US chair’s statement following this week’s G20 finance ministers’ meeting, preventing consensus on a joint communiqué. Beijing’s concerns covered the statement’s treatm... (more story)

Brazil has warned it could use retaliatory measures, the EU-Mercosur agreement and WTO mechanisms after EU antimicrobial rules cut off its access to the bloc’s market for meat, eggs and honey this week. The go... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said on Thursday that Google, Meta Platforms and other major online platforms outlined measures to address harmful and potentially unlawful... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK digital identity provider Yoti will withdraw its app from Spanish app stores on Sept. 10 after the Spanish Data Protection Agency fined it €950,000 ($1.1 million) over its processing of biomet... (more story)

MLex Summary: Governments should require digital platforms to meet safety-by-design standards, strengthen regulators’ enforcement powers and update laws to cover online grooming, sexual extortion and AI-genera... (more story)