Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

Ericsson has asked Brazil's competition authority to close the administrative inquiry into its licensing practices for patents essential to 5G technology, accusing Lenovo of deliberately delaying negotiations ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Canada’s Competition Bureau announced a consent agreement with the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers to address competition concerns related to the access and use of real est... (more story)

MLex Summary: Brazil’s competition authority has only one case scheduled its Tribunal's Oct. 21 ruling session: Tribunal members are expected to rule on an international cartel case involving the production an... (more story)

Equipment sales, patent royalties and manufacturing scale are all at stake as Washington prepares for international negotiations over spectrum needed for 6G. Experts say competing with China will require early... (more story)

Google’s challenge to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s settled expectations policy will reach the US Supreme Court’s conference Friday, but four pending petitions offer the justices alternative paths for c... (more story)

This week, the UPC maintained Lundbeck’s alcohol-reduction patent against Biogaran’s revocation challenge, while Dolby and Beko ended their infringement and validity dispute following an out-of-court settlemen... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously determined that a domestic industry is injured by imports of solar cells from India, Indonesia and Laos. The USITC also determined that critical ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade denied GameChange Solar Corp. summary judgment in its contestation of the US Department of Commerce's determination that its importation of off-grid solar char... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade sided with the Commerce Department in a ruling Wednesday, sustaining its redetermination in a court-ordered review of countervailing duty orders for Malaysian utility scale wind towers.

MLex Summary: Online platforms have 30 days to comply with Mexico’s new child safety duties under a decree published Wednesday. The decree is mandatory but carries no penalties, the government said in a statem... (more story)

MLex Summary: Germany is planning interim national rules that would generally bar anyone under 13 from social networks, with exceptions for demonstrably child-appropriate services and graduated restrictions fo... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Thursday reviewed European court rulings on online-platform monitoring and discussed additional hearings with five major platforms, incl... (more story)