Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Google’s anticompetitive conduct in digital advertising technology markets offered a golden opportunity for a court to impose structural remedies, said a former senior US Department of Justice antitrust enforc... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Texas federal judge denied OpenAI's request for an order that would have required X Corp. and SpaceXAI to immediately produce a confidential settlement agreement with Apple. US District Judge M... (more story)

Anthem has been hit with US antitrust claims from out-of-network neurosurgeons, who allege the company imposes untenable penalties on health centers that use non-Anthem treatment providers in violation of US antitrust law.

Rise Brewing’s Supreme Court challenge to Pepsi could reshape trademark disputes by deciding whether juries or judges assess a mark’s conceptual strength, potentially affecting brand-selection strategies, mark... (more story)

The debate in Congress over whether to extend the US Patent and Trademark Office’s authority to set its own fees has resurfaced proposals to reform how the office generates revenue in patent operations. But pu... (more story)

Netflix faces an injunction across 18 countries, while other key Unified Patent Court rulings this week addressed DNA-sequencing technology, prior-use rights, late evidence, litigation costs and patent settlem... (more story)

US Congress handed President Donald Trump major new tariff powers after passing a controversial bill Wednesday to punish Russia, likely paving the way for the White House to threaten a number of countries in w... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection opened an investigation into whether three importers evaded antidumping and antisubsidy duties on thermoformed molded fiber products from China. CBP alleged the i... (more story)

The US government’s multiple adjustments of tariffs on food and grocery products, during a period where grocery affordability is a hot-button political issue, could create opportunities for the various litigan... (more story)

A top US Department of Justice official said Thursday the agency is always open to settling monopolization cases, including with Google over its antitrust violations in the adtech markets after a federal judge... (more story)

A top US Department of Justice official said Thursday it is difficult to predict how collaboration between AI companies would look and whether it would violate antitrust laws, but the agency is keen to have a ... (more story)

Cutting deals with alleged monopolists and price-fixers offers “immediate relief” that avoids risky and protracted court battles, the head of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division said on Thursday ... (more story)