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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford
North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Autotrader, Feefo, Dignity, Just Eat and Pasta Evangelists are under investigation as part of a crackdown on fake and misleading reviews, the UK antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Mark... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Nearly 100 Chinese platform companies attended a compliance training session hosted by the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation and the city’s working committee for internet ent... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea is moving to introduce a sweeping general class action regime, putting the Ministry of Justice at the center of an overhaul that could recalibrate both corporate risk and how consumers are compensa... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Rita Lin has granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump Administration from declaring the artificial intelligence a supply-chain risk. She enjoi... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is not looking to bring “academic pie-in-the-sky theories” of harm and is instead focused on “day-to-day principles that apply in antitrust law,” a senior advisor to the head of... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Large content companies' attempts to claim a slice of the pie whenever other firms train large language models on their data feels like "rent-seeking," US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Thursday.
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 27, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian competition regulator is currently assessing the proposed acquisition of China National Aviation Fuel Group by China Petrochemical Corporation, commonly known as Sinopec. In a stat... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore has revised its merger procedure guidelines to streamline reviews and reduce compliance burdens, following a public consultation in late 2025.... (more story)
March 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said it is "unsurprising" that the US Department of Justice is now undermining antitrust enforcement on the merits and replacing it with the dispensing of fa... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 26, 2026 | Claude Marx
North America
Former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Thursday extolled the virtues of the agency’s bipartisan tradition and declined to discuss a “post-apocalyptic world” that could occur if s... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US State Department launched a $250 million fund for overseas critical minerals projects as part of a new fund, called Pax Silica, which has signed several countries to the effort already to ... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
With social media addiction in the headlines after juries in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, found Meta Platforms and Google liable for harming users, members of Congress are continuing their calls for r... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe
A Japan Patent Office ruling upholding a Chinese university’s patent on high-speed 3D microscopy is under review at Japan’s IP High Court, in a dispute over whether linking scan speed, excitation timing and re... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Major Chinese technology companies are emerging as active participants in video codec patent pools while also playing a larger part in shaping standard-essential patent, or SEP, licensing frameworks.
March 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe, North America
A top EU official has defended her agency’s approval of cooperation between German carmakers over the licensing of technologies after the companies drew antitrust scrutiny from US regulators. She appeared to b... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed an administrative monetary penalty on Northern Isga Foundation — a nonprofit charitable organization authorized by the Ale... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Damen Shipyards Group said allegations of fraud and sanctions violations brought by Dutch prosecutors have had a “significant impact” on the company. Units of the conglomerate faces bribery and sanctions claim... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: At the joint request of the prosecution and the defense, a US judge rescheduled the corruption trial of former medical device company executive David Ferrera to May 2027. At his arraignment, the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 27, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
An unusually divided US Federal Reserve voted to approve the acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s German-based securities and foreign trading unit by the banking giant’s New York-based national bank. The internal r... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission has warned four leading payment processors — Mastercard, Visa, PayPal and Stripe — about denying financial services based on political or religious views, a practice known as “d... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Transition Finance Council has released a set of guidelines to unlock transition finance, which is understood as the investment needed to help the decarbonization of high-emitting sectors.... (more story)
Trade View More
March 27, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China has opened a trade barrier investigation into US measures that it alleges disrupt global supply chains, the Ministry of Commerce said in an announcement on Friday. The ministry cited prelim... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU governments and lawmakers have agreed on the bloc’s biggest customs reform since 1968, nearly three years after the overhaul was first proposed. The deal creates a new EU Customs Authority in Lille, launche... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Thursday on the sidelines of the World Trade Organization’s 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, C... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government has warned that it may cut public funding for egg and pork producers’ associations and suspend their licenses if the country’s competition regulator confirms they have... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies investing in additional manufacturing capacity for the production of net-zero technologies and their main components will be eligible for direct grants under a Spanish regional plan wor... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Romanian law granting the rights to services guiding ships in and out of ports exclusively to public authorities could potentially amount to state aid, an opinion prepared for the EU’s top cour... (more story)
Energy View More
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Concentrated clean-energy supply chains leave key technologies vulnerable to disruption, with China dominating most manufacturing steps and every major chain containing at least one weak link, an... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Plans for the EU to phase out Russian fossil fuels remain on track despite delays and political pressure, the bloc's energy chief, Dan Jørgensen, said as lawmakers clashed in debate over Russian energy depende... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
German carrier Deutsche Lufthansa voiced concerns over “competitive distortions” between EU and foreign airlines at a meeting with the bloc’s competition chief, according to minutes published on Wednesday. Luf... (more story)
Technology View More
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs said on Friday it had restored access to Wikimedia Commons, a subdomain of Wikimedia, after a temporary restriction. The ministry said t... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A senior Live Nation touring executive told jurors Thursday at a high-profile antitrust trial that the company will book artists to perform at a venue regardless of which vendor handles the facility’s ticketin... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
America needs to be a dominant player in the global artificial intelligence race, and should it fall behind, the US economy will be in "serious trouble," Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned Thursday.