Subaru Australia allegedly failed to give independent repairers equal access to software and technical information needed to repair its vehicles, Australia’s competition watchdog said Friday as it launched Fed... (more story)

Thailand’s increasingly concentrated ride-hailing and on-demand delivery markets need clearer rules governing major digital platforms, a competition commissioner told MLex. Proposed rules would target unfair f... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Australian watchdog has commenced legal proceedings against carmaker Subaru Australia in the Federal Court over allegations that it breached the country’s right-to-repair rules. In a statemen... (more story)

Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been acquitted on seven counts of economic-espionage after US District Judge Vince Chhabria said prosecutors failed prove that he intended to benefit the Chinese governme... (more story)

MLex Summary: The evidence was insufficient for a rational jury to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Former Google engineer Linwei Ding knew or intended that his actions would benefit the Chinese governm... (more story)

US colleges and universities have long protected their intellectual property, but a series of recent trademark disputes show how aggressively some are enforcing their rights — including against each other.

India is looking to a US bilateral trade agreement to deliver more predictable market access, but tariff powers, tougher origin rules and politically sensitive negotiations could test how much certainty negoti... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday sustained the Commerce Department’s second remand of a 2023 review of an antidumping order on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates.

The US Court of International Trade voided a US Customs and Border Patrol regulation adopting a free trade agreement eligibility test from a side letter between the US and Bahrain.

Online platforms face another six months of scrutiny from the UK privacy watchdog after it extended its Children’s Code strategy. Several areas of regulatory work remain unresolved, with the Information Commis... (more story)

Gaming giant Roblox has provided a three-year court-enforceable undertaking to Australia’s online safety regulator to strengthen safeguards for children, including restricting contact between adults and users ... (more story)

A research arm of China’s top industry regulator is preparing to establish a technology ethics service center that will conduct artificial-intelligence ethics reviews and advise companies, as Beijing moves to ... (more story)