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Olaf Scholz

Trade

January 03, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska and Jean Comte

Europe

Scholz calls for swift, targeted EU support for strategic industries
Commissioner of the FCC Brendan Carr testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Data Privacy and Security, Technology

January 02, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

US FCC barred from regulating broadband as utility

Antitrust View More

Netgear, Huawei ask to stay US antitrust, SEP suit pending final settlement

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Plaintiff Netgear and defendant Huawei Technologies jointly asked a US federal court to stay proceedings in their antitrust and standard-essential patent litigation pending a final settlement. Th... (more story)

Khan critic Fitzgerald appointed chair of US House antitrust panel

January 03, 2025 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Representative Scott Fitzgerald will be chairman of the US House Judiciary’s antitrust subcommittee, from which he has previously lambasted the US Federal Trade Commission and FTC Chair Lina Khan.

Brazil CADE rejects calls for labor market oversight

January 03, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Latin America

As the global antitrust community ramps up discussion of regulating the labor market, the Brazilian competition authority has made clear that won't be a priority. Since 2014, CADE has been engaged in battling ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

ADA compliance software maker AccessiBe to pay $1 million AI-washing fine

January 03, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

The Federal Trade Commission added another notch in its AI-washing enforcement belt with a $1 million fine against AccessiBe, a software developer accused of overstating its ability to use artificial intellige... (more story)

AccessiBe settles with US FTC for $1 million over deceptive claims that AI product could make websites compliant with accessibility guidelines

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission announced it will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibilit... (more story)

South Korea's privacy watchdog shifts focus to tangible outcomes in 2025

January 03, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia

The privacy watchdog of South Korea is set to pivot from building frameworks to achieving outcomes in 2025, as it seeks to transform its AI-era privacy regulations into tangible benefits for the public through... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Clearing Tempur mattress deal based on new remedy would be 'prejudicial,' US FTC says

January 03, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

If a US court permits Tempur Sealy to buy Mattress Firm because of the dealmakers’ recently revised store slot commitment, such a clearance “would be highly prejudicial” against the Federal Trade Commission, a... (more story)

Tempur Sealy's new slot commitment is worse, unenforceable, US FTC says

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission responded to a revised slot commitment submitted by Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm, arguing that the new commitment remains unenforceable and is even worse than th... (more story)

Presidential transition, legal challenges not concerns for USW after Nippon-US Steel block

January 03, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

President-elect Donald Trump and potential legal action by Nippon Steel are not concerns after President Joe Biden announced a block on the sale of US Steel, United Steelworkers President David McCall said in ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

US judge dismisses Driver’s Privacy Protection Act claim against LinkedIn over website tracking

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge P. Casey Pitts dismissed with prejudice a woman's class action claim that LinkedIn violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act by intercepting personal data from people visitin... (more story)

TikTok creators urge US Supreme Court to ignore classified materials in suit to ban app

January 03, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

North America

Hours after the US government filed classified briefing materials to the US Supreme Court as it fights to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the country for national security reasons, the group of TikTok cr... (more story)

Google avoids sanctions in US privacy lawsuit over Real-Time Bidding

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A US magistrate judge denied a request by plaintiffs suing Google for privacy allegations over its Real-Time Bidding ads auction to find Google in contempt of the court and impose sanctions over ... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Unclean hands defense not barred in functionality proceedings, panel clarifies

January 03, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

CeramTec GmbH, a German producer of ceramic hip components, has enjoyed trademark protection for the color pink since 2013 — but no longer. In a precedential ruling issued today, the US Court of Appeals for t... (more story)

German medical device maker loses protection for pink hip replacement parts

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals found no error in cancellation by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of two trademarks issued to CeramTec GmbH for the color pink in connection with cera... (more story)

Willful-infringement period reduces award in US trademark suit

January 03, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

A federal judge in Connecticut reduced his original trademark infringement damage award in a dispute over racing sailboats from over $2 million to about $450,000 on remand from the US Second Circuit Court of A... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Chinese tech firm sanctioned by US for support to malicious cyber group

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Integrity Technology Group, a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, for its role in multiple computer intrusion inci... (more story)

UK government moves to further protect agencies over dirty-cash seizures, but doubts remain

January 03, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

UK moves to protect prosecutors from deep-pocketed individuals in suspected dirty-money cases could see enforcers becoming braver in taking on Kleptocrats, but history suggests there is unlikely to be a glut o... (more story)

US turns to Supreme Court to pursue Corporate Transparency Act enforcement

January 02, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

After whipsaw rulings during the holidays by two separate panels of the same US appeals court, the government has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce the Corporate Transparency Act. The law has been... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Would-be EU bonds consolidated tape providers can now apply to selection process

January 03, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Applications are now open for participation in the selection process to provide an EU bonds consolidated tape. The tape is a consolidated data feed that will gather data on transactions, such as ... (more story)

Third Party Litigation Funding industry sees EU regulatory clouds forming

January 03, 2025 | Jean Comte

Europe

Third-Party Litigation Funding is getting increased attention from EU regulators, fueled by pushes from business representatives who say it presents a risk for their activity. The TPLF industry, which says the... (more story)

Terraform Labs co-founder extradited to US

January 02, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: Do Kwon, co-founder of the cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, was extradited from Montenegro and appeared in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to face federal fraud charges. Kwon engaged in multi... (more story)

Trade View More

Coalition contests USITC’s negative injury rulings for aluminum extrusions

January 03, 2025

Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America

MLex Summary: The US Aluminum Extruders Coalition contested the US International Trade Commission’s final negative injury determination in antidumping and antisubsidy duty investigations of aluminum extrusions... (more story)

Chinese erythritol sold in US below cost of production, Cargill tells USITC

January 03, 2025 | Laina S. Miller

Asia, North America

Imports of Chinese erythritol are being sold at “aggressive and unrealistic pricing… well below Cargill’s costs of production,” according to testimony before the US International Trade Commission this morning.

US Commerce corrects Malaysian CSPV cell dumping rates

January 03, 2025

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department recalculated the dumping rates assigned to Malaysian crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell producers after correcting for significant ministerial errors in calculating ... (more story)

State Aid View More

Ericsson hit with $3.64 million fine over importation monopoly in New Caledonia

December 25, 2024

Oceania

MLex Summary: Global telecommunications giant Ericsson and its local partner Intelia have been hit by multi-million-dollar fines in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for having agreed to establish ... (more story)

Germany's aid for operation of floating LNG terminals wins EU approval

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)

EU Ombdusman closes probe into former DG Competition official

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)

Energy View More

US FTC's Khan, Slaugther, Bedoya defend noncompete ban, rulemaking authority

December 31, 2024

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission's final rule banning noncompete agreements across the country reflects a lawful delegation by Congress that doesn't invoke the US Supreme Court's "major questions"... (more story)

Aviation technology firm settles US sanctions violations

December 31, 2024

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $22,172 settlement with SkyGeek Logistics, which agreed to settle its potential civil liability for six apparent violatio... (more story)

Qatar warns EU gas supply at risk over due-diligence rules

December 23, 2024 | Oscar Pandiello

Europe, Middle East

QatarEnergy may halt EU gas exports if the bloc’s due-diligence rules result in fines, Qatar’s energy minister Saad al-Kaabi said. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, effective from 2027... (more story)

Technology View More

Concern over China's influence over TikTok 'well founded,' US tells high court

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The  Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is narrowly tailored to pass First Amendment scrutiny because of national security implications, the US argued in its ... (more story)

TikTok creators ask US Supreme Court to not consider classified materials

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Eight TikTok creators suing the US government to halt the law that would ban the application from operating urged the US Supreme Court to not consider classified materials submitted by the US gov... (more story)

ByteDance urges US Supreme Court to find TikTok-specific language in law that would bar app unconstitutional

January 03, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: ByteDance urged the US Supreme Court to halt the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act from banning its TikTok application from being used in the US in its reply... (more story)