Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

The US Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court to apply a more demanding standard for civil contempt in Epic Games’ competition injunction dispute with Apple, arguing that Apple’s 27 percent commission o... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed a brief with the US Supreme Court urging it to find that civil contempt is improper if “a fair ground of doubt exists whether the party’s conduct violates the i... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Chamber of Commerce told the US Supreme Court that a court injunction is “a set of operating instructions, and a business can operationalize only the text,” supporting Apple’s challenge to... (more story)

Apple cannot use copyright law to bypass trademark-raid safeguards, the Gujarat High Court ruled, warning that mischaracterizing counterfeit claims could undermine resulting searches, seizures and criminal proceedings.

A West London man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in connection with £2.7 million in counterfeit record sales. The case, which produced the largest-ever UK police seizure of fake vinyl, ... (more story)

A 2015 agreement allowed Victoria’s Secret and Thomas Pink Ltd. to end their global fight over “PINK” and coexist in different commercial terrain. Now, after the London shirtmaker’s assets have changed hands t... (more story)

MLex Summary: Australian producer Simcoa Operations and Norwegian manufacturer Elkem ASA filed separate lawsuits at the US Court of International Trade to contest the International Trade Commission's August fi... (more story)

MLex Summary: The G20 Energy Abundance Ministerial released a joint statement announcing the intention of the member countries to collaborate to create more resilient critical mineral supply chains through vol... (more story)

Chinese companies were complaining that the EU's Foreign Subsidy Regulation would be unfair to them long before it even came into force. A recent flashpoint was Beijing's block on cooperation with an EU probe ... (more story)

Meta faces a complaint from Dutch advocacy group What to Fix over Facebook’s alleged failure to enforce monetization rules and provide effective systems for reporting potentially illegal monetization. The grou... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta has been targeted in a complaint by digital-accountability group What To Fix. The group's filing to the Netherlands’ consumer and markets regulator, or ACM, alleges that Meta violated the EU... (more story)

Fines may not be "appropriate" where enforcers are trying to "change market equilibrium" rather than sanction past breaches, UK judge Ian Forrester said. The jurist, who previously served as a UK judge at the ... (more story)