Biden-era US Federal Trade Commission investigations of the Exxon-Pioneer and Chevron-Hess merger deals have backed up private price-fixing claims brought by consumers against shale oil producers and two previ... (more story)

Google persuaded a US judge not to break up its adtech business, putting the European Commission in an awkward position of deciding whether to settle for the same solution or push for an asset sale and risk a ... (more story)

Covabra Supermercados completed two transactions without notifying Brazil's competition watchdog beforehand and agreed to pay more than 1.3 million reais ($262,000) in penalties.

Congress included a short-term extension of the USPTO's authority to set its own fees in a continuing resolution to the federal budget passed late Tuesday, averting a Sept. 16 expiration. But some IP experts a... (more story)

Canada has recruited 48 researchers from US institutions including Harvard and MIT in a bid to strengthen its future pipeline of patents, startups and licensing revenue as Washington cuts research funding and ... (more story)

InterDigital has won another UPC injunction against Disney, over Disney+ device-sharing technology in Germany and The Netherlands. The ruling broadens the dispute beyond video encoding, rejects Disney’s securi... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department preliminarily determined that imports of oil country tubular goods from Austria are subsidized. Commerce assigned a preliminary 10.17 percent subsidy rate to all Austrian producers.

MLex Summary: European electricity distribution system operators have warned that rigid EU-origin requirements could increase costs, restrict access to critical components and delay electricity-grid expansion.... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission's move to open an interim review into dumping duties of up to 16.8 percent in place on EU imports of Chinese silicon metal is an "important step towards restoring fair com... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Department of Justice Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Jr. said he is proud of the agency's "success" in obtaining relief for the American public after a US federal judge rejected ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Little Tech Association said it is disappointed that US District Judge Leonie Brinkema stopped short of ordering the structural remedies in the Department of Justice's adtech monopolization lawsu... (more story)

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division said it was pleased that a US federal court ordered "substantial relief" in its adtech monopolization case against Google. "We are one step close... (more story)