MLex Summary: Spain's antitrust enforcer says it is investigating suspicions of anticompetitive practices on the national energy markets, notably excessive pricing and denial of access to energy infrastructure... (more story)

The UK's early-years childcare market is set to be examined by the antitrust regulator after the government sought a review in areas including fees, accessibility and transparency for parents. Some parents sti... (more story)

Mastercard’s market power remained substantial despite years of merchant surcharging, an economic expert told an Australian court in an antitrust trial over the payments company’s conduct. In a Federal Court h... (more story)

Google has beaten off a trademark challenge by Shorts International in the UK Court of Appeal, with judges upholding a lower court's decision that trademarks held by the maker and distributor of short films ha... (more story)

The Osaka District Court rejected a patent infringement suit over commercial mite-trap sheets, ruling that a rival product using nonwoven fabric fell outside the scope of patents covering sponge- and mesh-base... (more story)

China’s top intellectual property regulator has proposed detailed guidelines for handling patent disputes through administrative adjudication and mediation, a move that could bolster administrative enforcement... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty order investigations into air compressors from China, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

MLex Summary: Russian fertilizer manufacturers Nevinnomyssky Azot and Novomoskovskiy Azot have filed a legal challenge against EU dumping tariffs levied on Russian imports of mixtures of urea and ammonium nitr... (more story)

Concluding EU-UK negotiations on agrifood standards and emission trading schemes are a top priority, the Irish minister for foreign affairs said on Tuesday. The EU and UK agreed last year to wrap up the talks ... (more story)

Connect Europe, which represents European telecom companies Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, has issued a 12-point plan to improve the EU's Digital Networks Act, a draft EU telecom bill aimed at transf... (more story)

Connect Europe, the European telecom industry group, said the EU’s proposed telecom reform doesn’t go far enough to simplify the bloc’s rules or encourage investment, and that lawmakers should make it more amb... (more story)

MLex Summary: Access to the predictions website Polymarket and related social media accounts has been cut off by the Indonesian ministry of communication and digital affairs for violating domestic regulations.... (more story)