Australia's competition watchdog has launched a yearlong inquiry into whether mobile network sharing should be regulated to improve competition and coverage in regional areas. Telstra, which owns Australia's l... (more story)

MLex Summary: The Australian competition watchdog has launched an inquiry to examine regional mobile coverage across the country and the current state of competition in the supply of mobile services. In a stat... (more story)

South Korea's president Lee Jae Myung pressed the country’s antitrust regulator on the details of a plan to end its decades-old monopoly on referring cartel and unfair-trade cases to prosecutors, during a poli... (more story)

US patent case filings reached their highest level in a decade last year before falling back in early 2026, while petitions at the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board dropped over th... (more story)

MLex Summary: Anthropic moved to dismiss amended US copyright claims filed by Universal Music, Concord Music Group and ABKCO Music, saying the complaint lacks any example of an allegedly infringing output by A... (more story)

Democrats in the US Congress have proposed ending utility patent protection for most future seed innovations, limiting protection instead to the Plant Variety Protection Act and Plant Patent Act. Supporters ar... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Finance said Tuesday that the country will impose provisional anti-dumping duties on hot-dipped galvanized steel coil, sheet and st... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted to determine that a domestic industry is materially injured by dumped and subsidized imports of silicon metal from Australia and Norway. Th... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in a new report that the goods and services trade deficit fell to $73.3 billion in June, a $4.4 billion drop from May. The goods defi... (more story)

A psychologist testifying for Tennessee defended her view that Instagram's design can worsen body-image concerns and diminish vulnerable teens' control over their use of the platform, saying evidence that most... (more story)

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dug into debate Tuesday over the constitutionality of the Texas App Store Accountability Act, with the court hearing argument on whether app... (more story)

MLex Summary: Economists and legal and technology scholars told a US appeals court that a lower court’s remedies to Google's monopoly over general search services are insufficient because they do not make it p... (more story)