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Indian watchdog urges startups to complain against Big Tech bullying April 07, 2025 | Freny Patel

Big Tech giants Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Apple are creating an uneven playing field for Indian startups, prompting the country's antitrust watchdog to urge affected ventures to file form... (more story)

DuPont under fire as China strikes back in escalating trade war April 07, 2025 | MLex Staff

DuPont has become the latest target in the deepening China-US trade frictions, with Beijing subjecting the US chemicals giant to an antitrust probe following similar actions against US heavyweights Nvidia and ... (more story)

Stillwater to pay millions in legal costs over failed Australian antitrust lawsuit April 06, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Stanwell and CS Energy, energy companies owned by an Australian state government, have avoided paying legal costs in their successful defense of an antitrust lawsuit, with an Australian court ruling today that... (more story)

US DOJ's Slater says 'MAGA Antitrust' enforcement will have role for economists April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Gail Slater, chief of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, said she supports bringing in economists and giving them a seat at the table when the leadership makes enforcement and litigation deci... (more story)

US DOJ's Slater sees no antitrust exemption for AI firms on national security grounds April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Gail Slater, the antitrust chief of the US Department of Justice, said companies in the artificial intelligence space who seek exemption from antitrust laws by pleading their importance to national security pu... (more story)

US FTC chairman sounds alarm on Big Tech platforms' self-preferencing April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission, said Big Tech platforms' practices giving preference to their own products and services on marketplaces they operate is cause for worry and US anti... (more story)

More detailed HSR Form can stave off second requests, FTC official says April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

A senior US Federal Trade Commission official said the new HSR form can help merging parties avoid second requests for information from the agency because the form seeks granular information that can allow enf... (more story)

Merger remedy proposed at initial filing can shorten review, US DOJ official says April 05, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

A senior US Department of Justice antitrust official advised merging parties to propose remedies when they file their premerger notification in order to speed the review of a potentially problematic transaction.

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Heard in the halls: ABA antitrust conversation buzzes in changing regulatory milieu April 05, 2025 | MLex Staff

The top competition officials of the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission boycotted the main event — the 2025 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting — but held forth in separate venues as antitrust figu... (more story)

Motorola-Ericsson patent settlement does not mean no antitrust probe in Brazil April 04, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert and Flavia Fortes

Motorola and Ericsson settling their patent dispute does not mean that the Brazilian competition authority won’t investigate the case and apply antitrust sanctions to the companies. To avoid a probe and potent... (more story)

US DOJ insiders, observers troubled by effort to close field offices April 03, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Chris May

Attorneys inside and outside the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division are expressing concern this week about the potential closure of field offices in Chicago and San Francisco.

Nod for UK building-sector climate cooperation deal lifts lid on CMA's thinking April 03, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

The UK trade association for building-materials suppliers is celebrating getting the nod from the country's antitrust watchdog for its plan for the industry to cooperate by using the same service to assess sup... (more story)

Australian court's labor-union antitrust ruling leaves questions unanswered April 02, 2025 | James Panichi

Today’s antitrust ruling by Australia’s top court confirms the orthodoxy of competition law, suggesting that for a cartel to be established, both parties need to engage with one another and arrive at clear und... (more story)

California still taking steps to advance criminal antitrust enforcement April 01, 2025 | Alex Wilts

More than a year has passed since the California Department of Justice announced plans to revitalize the state’s criminal antitrust enforcement program — but the state attorney general has yet to bring a crimi... (more story)

Apple and its French antitrust critics clash over future of ATT April 01, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Apple’s rollout of its privacy prompt broke antitrust rules, French regulators announced yesterday. But what that means for the future of the App Tracking Transparency initiative is far from clear. Apple said ... (more story)

Nokia, Amazon settlement keeps USITC views on SEPs under wraps for now March 31, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

When the US International Trade Commission asked for input on whether negotiating tactics should factor into the public interest inquiry and exclusion orders are improper in standard essential patent, or SEP, ... (more story)