MLex Summary: Waste management company Ecologia Viterbo has secured court backing for the Italian competition authority's decision to close an abuse-of-dominance investigation in an appeal triggered by rival R... (more story)

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense plans to reduce the number of mergers subject to review in Brazil by up to half in the short term.  Leaders at the competition authority intend to raise merger-n... (more story)

South Korea’s antitrust regulator is expanding its economic-analysis operation into a standalone bureau next month, giving economists a broader role in market and policy research while retaining their core fun... (more story)

Avanci is in talks with additional automakers in China and elsewhere about joining its connected-car patent licensing programs, Laurie Fitzgerald, president of Avanci Vehicle, told MLex. The licensing administ... (more story)

A Chinese court has protected a well-known real-estate brokerage mark against use for laundry services, finding that different trademark classifications don’t rule out a real-world connection based on where se... (more story)

MLex Summary: Inari was denied judgments of noninfringement regarding all US patent claims brought by Corteva over corn and soybean crops. District Judge John F. Murphy denied judgment as to all but five of Corteva's claims.

MLex Summary: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is due to visit Greenland on Sept. 6-7 to deepen EU ties with the territory and discuss the Arctic’s growing strategic importance, the commissio... (more story)

China objected to four paragraphs of the US chair’s statement following this week’s G20 finance ministers’ meeting, preventing consensus on a joint communiqué. Beijing’s concerns covered the statement’s treatm... (more story)

Brazil has warned it could use retaliatory measures, the EU-Mercosur agreement and WTO mechanisms after EU antimicrobial rules cut off its access to the bloc’s market for meat, eggs and honey this week. The go... (more story)

MLex Summary: Thailand’s Digital Economy and Society Ministry on Thursday discussed online safety cooperation with Meta, focusing on protecting children and young people and raising parents’ awareness of onlin... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said on Thursday that Google, Meta Platforms and other major online platforms outlined measures to address harmful and potentially unlawful... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK digital identity provider Yoti will withdraw its app from Spanish app stores on Sept. 10 after the Spanish Data Protection Agency fined it €950,000 ($1.1 million) over its processing of biomet... (more story)