Medtronic on Friday tried to persuade a California federal judge to reconsider his inclination to uphold a jury verdict finding that the company illegally stifled competition in the market for certain medical devices.

Surgical Care Affiliates, United Surgical Partners, Inc. and DaVita on Friday sought to convince an Illinois federal judge that former employees’ claims of illegal no-poach agreements, wage fixing and anticomp... (more story)

French engineering and IT services firm Alten said in a regulatory filing that it is confident it can cancel or reduce two recent antitrust fines imposed in France and Romania for no-poaching practices. The Fr... (more story)

MLex Summary: DeWayne Carter, Nya Harrison and Sedona Prince agreed to dismiss their US claims against the National Collegiate Athletic Association over rules that prohibit student-athletes from being compensa... (more story)

A series of recurring themes emerged during oral argument Friday in the dispute between VLSI Technology, Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance, with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit repeatedl... (more story)

An Osaka District Court ruling has narrowed the ability of copyright holders to impose self-declared penalty fees for unauthorized online image use, rejecting a fishing website’s attempt to claim damages based... (more story)

Rising use of trade diversion schemes to evade EU duties is a growing concern, the EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, has warned, and European companies are increasingly bringing complaints to it as the European Co... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU carmakers are calling for clearer definitions for low-carbon steel and aluminum, more flexible rules for European content, and stronger incentives such as extended subsidies for EU-made electr... (more story)

MLex Summary: China said it opposes the EU’s plan to block funding support for projects using Chinese inverters, saying the bloc had labeled China a “high-risk country” without evidence and subjected Chinese p... (more story)

MLex Summary: Florida’s attorney general filed a reply in support of a judgment against NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s court challenge to a state social media law, saying th... (more story)

MLex Summary: Enforcement against illegal hate and terrorist content, harms targeting women and child-safety failures will be key priorities for Ofcom’s implementation of the Online Safety Act, Oliver Griffith... (more story)

The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division has new acting heads for civil enforcement, litigation and criminal prosecution, MLex has learned. Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi informed staffe... (more story)