Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Top News
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
December 21, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
December 20, 2024 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May
North America
Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 20, 2024 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Antitrust View More
December 21, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google’s remedy proposal in an Internet search monopolization lawsuit "attempts to maintain the status quo and change as little as possible," DuckDuckGo said in a statement. Once a court finds a ... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google said it will appeal a District of Columbia ruling that found it illegally monopolized the Internet search markets and the market for search text ads but it must first propose remedies. G... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Google filed a counter proposal to the US Department of Justice's proposed remedies in the government's Internet search monopolization lawsuit after a court found some of Google's search distribu... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 20, 2024 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense, or Idec, has filed an appeal against the national antitrust regulator’s decision to close an investigation into tech giant Meta’s generative artificial intelligenc... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge rejected RealPage's request to transfer the US Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against the real-estate software company to a Tennessee or Texas federal court. In her opinion ... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Nvidia today won EU approval to acquire Run:ai, giving rise to concerns by civil society organisation about "growing power" in the AI sector. "We view this transaction as a means for Nvidia to re... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Boeing received foreign investment approval in the UK on Dec. 5 for its purchase of Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing said in a US securities filing.
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Swisscom has won approval from Italy’s competition authority to buy Vodafone’s Italian business, with conditions. Swisscom, which owns rival telecom operator Fastweb, committed to continue provid... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Mayors from Pennsylvania and Indiana released a statement through US Steel on social media, saying that United Steelworkers "...is putting jobs at risk with its actions, plain and simple.” Mayor ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 20, 2024 | Maria Dinzeo
Middle East, North America
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group will face a damages trial after a federal judge found it used WhatsApp to install its cyber-surveillance tool on mobile devices of some 1,400 journalists and activists in violati... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: A federal judge found NSO Group liable for using WhatsApp to install spyware on the mobile devices of approximately 1,400 WhatsApp users in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Calif... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Facebook users filed an amended US complaint accusing the social network of helping scammers defraud users with deceptive advertising, breaching its legal and contractual duties to users and viol... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 20, 2024 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Tesla has won a protracted battle with the registrant of the "TESLA" trademark in the EU. The EU Intellectual Property Office revoked the registration in its entirety due to bad faith and non-use by Bulgarian ... (more story)
December 20, 2024 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Refusal by Gilead Sciences to even discuss its need to seek a license to CDC-backed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PReP, technology endangers public health, amici told the Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Tesla has won a protracted battle with the registrant of the “Tesla” trademark in the EU. The European Union Intellectual Property Office revoked the registration in its entirety due to bad faith... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato has been sentenced to four years and nine months imprisonment by Spanish judges today for money laundering, corruption and tax offenses. Rato... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, as well as Zelle operator Early Warning Services, for failing to protect consumers from wid... (more story)
December 20, 2024 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Five senior individuals, including the former chief executive, at collapsed UK law firm Axiom Ince were today charged with fraud, forgery, document destruction, and the improper use of 60 million pounds in cli... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: US Representatives Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie are questioning more than 60 asset managers regarding their involvement with the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. “[T[he committee has uncovered... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: Texas attorney general Ken Paxton applauded Wells Fargo’s decision to withdraw from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, which is "an anti-energy activist organization that requires its members to prio... (more story)
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a final rule to implement requirements for futures commission merchants related to margin adequacy and the treatment of separate accounts of a customer.
Trade View More
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced that a US-Mexico-Canada Agreement panel agreed with the US on all seven legal claims on Mexico’s biotech corn measures, finding that Mexico’s m... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Fujifilm North America, a US importer and domestic subsidiary of Japanese photography tech manufacturer Fujifilm, contested the US International Trade Commission's affirmative material injury det... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: US importers Sign-Zone, Daikin Comfort and AutoZone contested antisubsidy and antidumping duty orders on Chinese aluminum extrusions.
State Aid View More
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany’s plans to grant Deutsche Energy Terminal 4.06 billion euros of state support to operate four floating Liquefied Natural Gas terminals have been approved by the European Commission. The a... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Ombudsman has closed an inquiry into transparency around the application of a former member of DG Competition to take up a job at a lawfirm. The ombudsman "regrets" the commission's ... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Mitsui Mining & Smelting, oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan, and three other companies have received a total of 25.5 billion yen ($170 million) in subsidies from the industry ministry to boost d... (more story)
Energy View More
December 20, 2024
North America
MLex Summary: The Federal Trade Commission welcomed an order by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which affirmed a lower district court order against pharmaceutical maker Teva requiring it to del... (more story)
December 20, 2024 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Federal Trade Commission said a US court ordering Teva Pharmaceuticals today to delist improperly listed drug patents sets the stage for removal of similar junk listings for other critical medications and ... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: EU gas and electricity markets were robust in ensuring the security of supply in the third quarter of 2024, according to the new quarterly reports published today by the European Commission. EU g... (more story)
Technology View More
December 20, 2024
Europe
MLex Summary: UK companies received today new draft guidance on how data protection law, including the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, or PECR, applies to storage and access technologies suc... (more story)
December 20, 2024 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online platforms should see greater clarity on the EU's "trusted flaggers" content-moderation mechanism in the first quarter of next year, MLex understands. The guidelines will be based on a research institute... (more story)
December 20, 2024
Asia
MLex: In response to rising home invasions and robberies involving young part-time workers recruited through social media, the Japanese telecom regulator has requested this week that major social media operato... (more story)