Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: An individual appeared in Hong Kong's Eastern Magistrates' Courts on Friday in the first criminal case involving allegedly providing false or misleading information to the Competition Commission,... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan's antitrust watchdog said Friday that it would survey 50,000 businesses to examine potentially unfair practices involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data, following the publ... (more story)

International liner shipping companies would be required to assess how their cooperation agreements affect China's shipping-related industrial and supply chains under proposed regulations that would also intro... (more story)

A Dutch court has barred Merck’s under-the-skin version of cancer drug Keytruda in eight European countries, upholding Halozyme’s drug-delivery patent and applying EU top court guidance allowing courts to issu... (more story)

Japan’s Supreme Court for the first time found the “special circumstances” test satisfied for tort liability when a business copies material outside copyright protection, upholding damages over a free, adverti... (more story)

US internet services provider Cloudflare has appealed Italian court rulings that upheld a regulatory order for it to help prevent users in Italy from reaching sites reported as carrying pirated live streams an... (more story)

MLex Summary: European carmakers have welcomed the interim EU-China trade agreement on hybrid vehicles as a step toward easing tensions, while warning that rapidly rising Chinese hybrid vehicle imports are des... (more story)

The EU and China have reached an understanding on controlling Chinese exports of hybrid vehicles to the European Union, potentially cutting shipments by more than half, EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič said after... (more story)

MLex Summary: The EU and China have reached an understanding on hybrid vehicle trade and agreed to improve export-control transparency, according to a joint statement following talks in Beijing on Oct. 8-9 bet... (more story)

Online platforms are set to receive updated EU guidance on protecting electoral processes before the end of this year, with a particular focus on emerging risks from artificial intelligence, EU digital chief H... (more story)

EU governments should prioritize agreement on the proposed Kids Act to avoid a fragmented series of national rules around protecting children online, the EU’s digital chief Henna Virkkunen told MLex, adding th... (more story)

MLex Summary: Seven Chinese government agencies have proposed broader protections for platform workers, including restrictions on how companies use algorithms to manage their work, with public comments open th... (more story)