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Brazil’s antitrust tribunal agreed to fine four companies and four individuals more than 90 million reais ($18 million) for their participation in a cartel that rigged public tenders for outsourced service con... (more story)

Trial of a Lipscomb University basketball player’s US antitrust claims against the National Collegiate Athletic Association has been pushed back nearly a year from March 2027 to February 8, 2028, a federal jud... (more story)

United Therapeutics did not violate antitrust law by hindering Sandoz's access to cartridges for its generic competitor to UTC's brand-name hypertension treatment Remodulin, a US federal appeals court said Wednesday.

OpenAI, Adobe and other tech groups have urged the Unified Patent Court to revoke a digital-file patent held by French startup KeeeX. Meanwhile, KeeeX has accused its opponents of infringement through content-... (more story)

Universal Music argued at the EU’s top court that Cloudflare should be held liable for copyright infringement because its content delivery services helped a piracy website make unauthorized music downloads ava... (more story)

Sanrio, the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty, has defeated an animation studio’s bid to stop sales of merchandise featuring Kuromi, one of its most popular characters, after a Tokyo court found that the stu... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said 14 economies have reached an agreement on a commitment to address global excess capacity, including representatives of the US, Argentina, Australia, Ca... (more story)

The US Court of International Trade's late-September hearing to consider the Trump administration's global tariffs over alleged forced labor has drawn mixed reactions, but raised the possibility that the judic... (more story)

MLex Summary: International Energy Agency countries backed accelerating oil stock releases pledged in March and prioritizing diesel stocks where possible, the agency said Wednesday. About 325 million barrels h... (more story)

A European Parliament committee is expected to present its joint draft report on the Cloud and AI Development Act in December, with a vote planned for mid-March, according to a provisional timetable seen by ML... (more story)

France's failure to implement new EU media merger rules has created a regulatory gap that affects deals, according to a new report by press freedom organisations. It says the new safeguards cannot yet be effec... (more story)

MLex Summary: Zalando’s challenge to the European Commission’s refusal to disclose documents underlying its Digital Services Act supervisory-fee calculations was rejected by the EU General Court Wednesday. Jud... (more story)