Cutting deals with alleged monopolists and price-fixers offers “immediate relief” that avoids risky and protracted court battles, the head of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division said on Thursday ... (more story)

MLex Summary: PubMatic released a statement saying that a US court order requiring Google to change its rules for auctioning online advertising could “open one of the market’s largest pools of buy-side demand ... (more story)

The US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has asserted a leading role in national antitrust enforcement, arguing that federal authorities are best placed to weigh the economy-wide effects of conduct and t... (more story)

The debate in Congress over whether to extend the US Patent and Trademark Office’s authority to set its own fees has resurfaced proposals to reform how the office generates revenue in patent operations. But pu... (more story)

Netflix faces an injunction across 18 countries, while other key Unified Patent Court rulings this week addressed DNA-sequencing technology, prior-use rights, late evidence, litigation costs and patent settlem... (more story)

China’s top court has sent a strong deterrent message through its 380-million-yuan ($56 million) Jingdiao trade-secret ruling. But can plainly wrongful conduct justify treating tens of thousands of drawings co... (more story)

The US government’s multiple adjustments of tariffs on food and grocery products, during a period where grocery affordability is a hot-button political issue, could create opportunities for the various litigan... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department preliminarily determined that Indonesia and Malaysia are dumping fatty acids. Commerce gave all Indonesian producers a 19.55 percent dumping rate, with similar but sepa... (more story)

The EU and China are aiming for concrete progress on trade imbalances, market access for European companies and rare-earth export controls when their trade chiefs meet in Beijing on Oct. 8-9, the European Comm... (more story)

MLex Summary: Digital platforms should to take greater responsibility for protecting young people from harmful or manipulative content and to mitigate the impact of persuasive design with risk-based safeguards... (more story)

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been found liable for fake ads on its Instagram and Facebook platforms and ordered to compensate the founder of German personal finance platform Finanzfluss for damages from 26... (more story)

MLex Summary: A UK court is considering Thursday how to manage two legal challenges to the government’s reported attempts to access encrypted data from Apple users. Civil liberties organization Liberty, which ... (more story)