MLex Summary: Aetna has filed a reply in support of its motion to dismiss a putative nationwide class of healthcare providers' US amended antitrust claims over out-of-network payments, saying that the complain... (more story)

Agri Stats’ settlement with direct purchaser plaintiffs got final approval from a US judge Tuesday, ending the plaintiffs’ nearly decade-long antitrust suit against the data broker and pork producers with cond... (more story)

Amazon has lost its bid to change part of a UK mass claim over the tech giant’s marketplace behaviors to an “opt-in” format — where class members have to proactively join the litigation — rather than “opt-out,... (more story)

The US lost two entries in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s list of the top 100 geographies for innovation while China added one, with a patent-intensive battery hub accounting for the annual ran... (more story)

The EU’s top court has drawn the line between political parody and trademark protection, saying Vlaams Belang’s Ikea-themed immigration campaign was likely unjustified even as it recognized that free speech ca... (more story)

China will strengthen intellectual property protection in emerging fields, speed the commercialization of research results and deepen international cooperation as it begins the 15th Five-Year Plan, which runs ... (more story)

The US Court of International trade granted the Commerce Department's request to remand the review results of its antidumping duty order on Chinese steel racks following the Federal Circuit's 2025 ban on the u... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has remanded the Commerce Department's 2022-2023 review results for the antidumping duty order on Chinese steel racks.

MLex Summary: Ecuadorian firms Nirsa S.A. and Procesadora Posorja Proposorja S.A. filed a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade to challenge the Commerce Department's August review of an antisubsidy o... (more story)

MLex Summary: Social media platform X’s age-assurance and parental-control measures are under formal scrutiny, the Irish media regulator said Tuesday. The case is Coimisiún na Meán's first investigation under ... (more story)

X is under a formal Irish regulatory probe — the first under the country's Online Safety Code — over over whether its age assurance measures and parental controls adequately protect children from adult-only vi... (more story)

MLex Summary: Social media platforms available to UK users would need a license from the country's online safety watchdog under a bill proposed in parliament on Monday. The Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licens... (more story)