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US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said antitrust and merger settlements have to be a part of the "tough enforcement choices" he has to make, because the FTC's budget is limited and striking ... (more story)

A US judge pushed Google toward faster and more meaningful cooperation with a technical committee charged with overseeing court-ordered remedies for the company’s monopolization of online search.

Felipe Leitão Valadares Roquete, the acting superintendent of Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense, said the watchdog’s investigative arm plans to conclude a significant number of investigation... (more story)

Via LA has launched its DRAM data center patent pool with three of the field’s top 15 largest patent holders and is negotiating with most of the rest, President Kevin Mack told MLex. A second group of new memb... (more story)

The UK Intellectual Property Office recently invalidated UK trademark rights in “GPT” and “ChatGPT” while rejecting OpenAI’s bid to block ChainGPT LLC from registering its name there. The decision gives UK app... (more story)

Japan’s Asahi Kasei, one of the country’s leading chemicals groups, said it will file civil claims against a Chinese chemicals company and a former employee arrested on suspicion of trade secret violations und... (more story)

MLex Summary: China will closely monitor US implementation of the newly signed Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 and reserves the right to take measures to protect the legitimate intere... (more story)

MLex Summary: China opposes any voluntary restrictions on exports of hybrid vehicles to the EU, saying such measures would seriously violate World Trade Organization rules, the Ministry of Commerce said in a s... (more story)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Commerce Department’s ruling that the antidumping duty petition for oil country tubular goods from Argentina had proper industry backing.

Dina Kallay, a deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, has left her role, MLex has learned.

State and federal antitrust enforcement agencies have made news this year after diverging on their stances in some big antitrust cases. It's not because the states haven't made a concerted effort to coordinate... (more story)

Proponents of the One Agency Act are “pretty unrealistic” about the magnitude of work that will be required to transfer the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust enforcement authority to the US Department of... (more story)