The US Department of Justice sent letters to eight grocery store chains as it widens an investigation into potential anticompetitive activity over beef prices, a top agency official said.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has waded into private intellectual property litigation at nearly three times the rate of his first administration and more frequently than any recent predecessor. B... (more story)

A senior in-house Meta Platforms lawyer has voiced concern about the use of antitrust injunctions by competition authorities in disputes between companies. Meta has faced a series of interim measures in recent... (more story)

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s public advisory committees haven’t met for nearly two years, missing statutory deadlines and remaining largely vacant. Their partial reconstitution has yet to restore an im... (more story)

The European Patent Office, or EPO, has ruled that descriptions should be updated to accord with claims which are amended during hearings or appeals. The judgment addresses issues of inconsistency which can ar... (more story)

Avanci is in talks with additional automakers in China and elsewhere about joining its connected-car patent licensing programs, Laurie Fitzgerald, president of Avanci Vehicle, told MLex. The licensing administ... (more story)

MLex Summary: The European Commission has dropped a planned trade-based tool to retain aluminum scrap in the EU after concluding it would cover only about half of exports, the cabinet of Industry Chief Stéphan... (more story)

MLex Summary: Japanese producers Kobelco Construction Machinery and Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Cranes joined US firm Link-Belt Cranes in filing a lawsuit at the US Court of International Trade cont... (more story)

MLex Summary: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is due to visit Greenland on Sept. 6-7 to deepen EU ties with the territory and discuss the Arctic’s growing strategic importance, the commissio... (more story)

Google escaped a corporate split of its online advertising business this week but couldn't avert court-imposed behavioral remedies that will likely inject competition into the adtech markets faster than any at... (more story)

MLex Summary: Porn website Xgroovy.com’s operator was fined £730,000 by UK regulator Ofcom on Friday for failing to introduce age checks and respond to a legally binding information request. The online safety ... (more story)

Japan’s largest online platforms do not necessarily have to go back to copyright complainants for more evidence before rejecting a takedown request, an Osaka court has ruled, in a decision backing X Corp.’s us... (more story)