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Antitrust
February 27, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Trade
February 27, 2025 | Roffie Kurniawan
Asia
Trade
February 26, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
February 27, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
US Anesthesia Partners has asked a federal court in Houston to force one of its competitors to show its contracts with medical facilities and insurance companies, in the hope it will prove US Anesthesia Partne... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Nine EU lawmakers from the European Parliament have endorsed the European Commission’s decision to withdraw its proposed regulation on standard-essential patent licensing, according to a letter seen by MLex. T... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
The former chair of the UK competition regulator said today that his work at the watchdog wasn’t finished. Still, Marcus Bokkerink said he is “very happy” that the Competition and Markets Authority’s changed-u... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 27, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The intellectual property case pitting Getty Images against Stability AI could be significant enough to prompt legislation, the barrister for the image generator said at a case management hearing in London tod... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Claude Marx
North America
The US Senate Judiciary Committee today overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Gail Slater to be the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer.
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government shouldn't continue with its preferred option for tackling AI and copyright, which introduces a copyright exception for text and data mining, as long as it lacks an accessible te... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 27, 2025
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: IBM announced it has closed its $6.4 billion acquisition of US cloud software maker HashiCorp.
February 27, 2025 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company must feel its path to EU foreign-subsidy approval for its 14.7 billion-euro takeover of Germany's Covestro has been smoothed by the European Commission’s clearance of another lar... (more story)
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Amedisys reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday that a growing number of states have enacted mini-Hart-Scott-Rodino laws that require state approval of transactions invo... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 27, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Background Alert, a California data broker that allows users to search for individuals and their connections, has agreed to shut its operations for three years in a settlement with the state’s privacy regulato... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK’s data protection regulator and the online safety watchdog want to develop joint strategies to ensure women’s privacy is protected without undermining compliance with online safety rules, representative... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK data privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, issued reprimands today to the city councils of Edinburgh and Glasgow for failing to respond to requests for personal informa... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: An Avago patent directed to eliminating latency during streaming was correctly canceled by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the US Court of Appeals for the Fede... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A New York federal judge yesterday reconsidered the posture of her previous dismissal of a claim for a correction of patent inventorship, this time making the dismissal without prejudice. In the same order, h... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
Europe
A patent directed to a bio-signal-measuring bra was declared invalid today by the UK High Court on the basis of an earlier-filed US patent application. Judge Richard Hacon went on to find, however, that if Pr... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: In its annual earnings report, TD Bank provided an update about the improvements in its anti-money laundering compliance program since an October 2024 settlement with US authorities. The bank exp... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
Former Worthington Group Chief Executive Douglas Ware knew that a top manager working with him repeatedly breached the watchdog's ban against him to act as company director, the Financial Conduct Authority's p... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A Zurich-based Morgan Stanley unit has been fined one million Swiss francs ($1.1 million) over its failure to prevent money laundering linked to bribery involving a former Greek defense minister. The case stem... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation should be amended by the European Commission to include certain elements that were set out in detailed rules, given their importance from a supervisory per... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's planned new private stock market, the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System, might not reach full potential if it is overly burdened with regulation, according to the head of a C... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is planning to consult with the insurance industry to streamline some rules for the sector, including the frequency of fair value assessments. Speaking of the push for grow... (more story)
Trade View More
February 27, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed a Court of International Trade ruling that upheld a Customs and Border Protection determination that several importers of xanthan gu... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
President Donald Trump said today that 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect next week, as will an additional 10 percent tariff on China. The tariffs will enter into force on March 4 on C... (more story)
February 27, 2025
Asia, North America
MLex summary: President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that he will impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico on March 4, along with a 10 percent tariff on China on top of an existing 10 percent tariff... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria should win its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II nuclear power station, suggests an EU court opinion that was rel... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Government support to EU companies for green technologies will have an easier ride under a new plan today aimed at boosting domestic industries. EU commissioner Teresa Ribera signaled that markets were changin... (more story)
February 26, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The Clean Industrial Deal — the EU's new strategy to decarbonize industry while boosting its competitiveness — was published today by the European Commission. "We know that too many obstacles sti... (more story)
Energy View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Further action is needed to reduce methane emissions in Europe and globally, the European Environment Agency report says. Despite its decrease, methane emissions still account for 12 percent of a... (more story)
February 26, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson directed the agency to form a Joint Labor Task Force that will work to prioritize rooting out and prosecuting deceptive, unfair, and anticompetit... (more story)
February 26, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello and Jean Comte
Europe
The European Commission unveiled today its first “omnibus” legislative text aimed at cutting administrative costs for companies. But the proposal might face difficulties during the scrutiny process as member s... (more story)
Technology View More
February 27, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: UK telecom regulator Ofcom is consulting on changes to the annual fees that mobile operators pay to use certain spectrum bands. The watchdog is proposing to reduce annual fees by 21 percent for t... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
European companies will be asked their views on an EU initiative for a “European Data Union Strategy” that would streamline existing EU data rules, the European Commission said today. A future initiative, whic... (more story)
February 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government wants to see the Online Safety Act “unfold” before discussing new legislation to regulate pornography content, tech minister Peter Kyle suggested today following a newly publish... (more story)