China stepped up antitrust enforcement against government interference in competition during its latest five-year planning period, completing 290 cases, with more than 95 percent involving municipal or county-... (more story)

MLex Summary: Booking operator Trainline, airline Virgin Atlantic and RED Driving School are being probed by the UK competition regulator over pricing practices under consumer enforcement rules. The Competitio... (more story)

MLex Summary: Crab buyer defendants Bornstein Seafoods, Astoria Pacific Seafoods, Pacific Seafood and Ocean Gold Seafoods argue that plaintiffs still haven't provided sufficient evidence and analysis for a Cal... (more story)

China’s market regulator plans to strengthen trade-secret enforcement and formalize links between administrative and criminal authorities, while stepping up protection in sectors including integrated circuits,... (more story)

E-commerce platform Shein’s application to trademark its new “Shein Icon” brand has been rejected by the UK Intellectual Property Office after Dsquared2 successfully opposed it on the grounds that it was too s... (more story)

French pharmaceutical company Les Laboratoires Servier has started litigation against makers of generic drugs in the Netherlands in a bid to ensure they are on the hook for any damages claims from lawsuits bro... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission determined that a US industry is materially injured by imports of L-lysine from China that the US Department of Commerce has determined are dumped and subsid... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection sent out a message on its Cargo Systems Messaging Service to clarify that Section 301 duties on forced labor imports and on Brazil are drawback eligible. CBP had ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade set a Sept. 30 date for oral arguments in the lawsuit from a coalition of small businesses challenging the Trump administration's use of Section 301 to impose ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Online platforms’ algorithms can increase the risk of children being radicalized through repeated exposure to increasingly harmful content, the Children’s Commissioner for England said Tuesday. I... (more story)

India's patent system finally has a test for deciding when an invention is merely a mental act, after the Delhi High Court stepped in where the patent office hadn't. The seven-step framework could curb arbitra... (more story)

MLex Summary: Some 204 digital platforms have submitted mandatory self-assessments of their risk profiles to the Indonesian government under the country's online child-protection regime, the Communications and... (more story)