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Trade
January 03, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska and Jean Comte
Europe
Antitrust
January 03, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 02, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
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)
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.
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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.
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
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)
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)
Energy View More
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)