MLex Summary: Taxi Praha and Fix engaged in a cartel for the operation and brokerage of taxi services to and from Prague’s Václav Havel Airport between 2019 and 2021, the Czech competition authority's chairman... (more story)

MLex Summary: Chinese food-delivery platform Meituan’s proposed acquisition of Beijing Maiyatian Network Technology company will face a public hearing on Sept. 18 over whether commitments offered to address co... (more story)

MLex Summary: A Latvian municipality didn’t breach EU dominance-abuse rules when awarding a waste-management contract to a company in which it held a 51 percent stake, the EU’s top court has said. When awardin... (more story)

This week, the Unified Patent Court granted Abbott Diabetes Care a preliminary injunction, blocking SiBionics’ GS3-R glucose monitor across all 18 UPC states. Other rulings sharpened UPC rules on evidence pres... (more story)

A former employee whose patents were among intellectual property transferred within Japanese electronics group Murata for 4.3 billion yen ($28 million) was not entitled to a share of that value, a Tokyo court has ruled.

China’s top copyright regulator has made the development of copyright rules for artificial intelligence, including training data and generative AI, a priority in its new five-year work plan, bringing renewed a... (more story)

Technology groups warn that the EU’s proposed Public Procurement Act could limit opportunities for non-EU companies by allowing authorities to favor European suppliers on security and sovereignty grounds. The ... (more story)

The EU’s temporary €3 customs fee on low-value parcels has cut shipment volumes in the Netherlands by 46 percent since July 1, center-right lawmaker Dirk Gotink said, calling the effect “massive” and bigger th... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee has called for a more assertive EU approach to China, urging the bloc to reduce strategic dependencies and respond proportionately to Chinese i... (more story)

The UK government needs to persuade voters that closer technology ties and regulatory alignment with the EU is beneficial to both sides, a senior European Commission cybersecurity official has said. The commen... (more story)

MLex Summary: The UK government has said it will cut back on consultations it considers unnecessary; a move that could affect its frequent use of public calls for evidence on technology, AI, data and online sa... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU lawmakers have approved the draft legislation on European Business Wallets, a digital “briefcase” for companies to verify identities, exchange authenticated documents and interact with public ... (more story)