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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 11, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security
February 11, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 10, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger
North America
Antitrust View More
February 12, 2026
Asia
MLex summary: Malaysia’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has unanimously upheld the Malaysia Competition Commission’s 415.5 million ringgit ($3.9 million) fine decision against four poultry-feed producers for pric... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers
North America
Whenever the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice come out with new antitrust policy statements, it gives state attorneys general another tool to think about, but it also creates concerns ... (more story)
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Aurobindo Pharma asked a US federal judge to reconsider a summary judgment against states’ antitrust claims over the drug PioMet. Aurobindo said reconsideration is appropriate because the court’s... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 12, 2026 | Amy Miller and Nick Robertson
North America
Software developers urged a US appeals court to find that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act does not have an identicality requirement, so their proposed class action can proceed against Microsoft, GitHub an... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Following a patent victory against Walmart-owned Flipkart, California-based startup Voicemonk is suing Google in India for infringing artificial intelligence and Android patents. The Delhi High Court has refer... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Latin America
MLex Summary: Brazil's National Data Protection Agency, Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office and National Consumer Secretariat expressed dissatisfaction with X’s AI chatbot Grok over its handling of AI-generated... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 11, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority's Tribunal has unanimously approved United Airlines' $100 million investment in the Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aereas, increasing the company’s minority shareholding from... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Latin America
Brazil’s antitrust tribunal has approved, without restrictions, United Airlines’ plan to raise its minority stake in Azul from 2.02 percent to roughly 8 percent — a move tied to Azul’s Chapter 11 restructuring... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Brazilian competition authority's Tribunal suspended the final clearance of ClickBus’s acquisition of RJ Participações on Wednesday and closed the deal review without examination on the merits, concluding ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 12, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Meta Platforms sought to discredit one of its former engineering directors Wednesday during cross-examination in a New Mexico trial by asking why he was “lingering” on “disgusting” videos during his alleged te... (more story)
February 12, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A federal judge overseeing the nationwide social media addiction MDL set trial dates on Wednesday and outlined how the first state case against Meta Platforms will be tried, as years of litigation over Faceboo... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil’s online safety law, known as the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents, or ECA Digital, will take effect in March, with a primary focus on age-verification methods to safeguard minors’ rights in... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 11, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require AI companies to disclose the use of copyrighted works in model training before a new model is deployed. The bill expands upon previou... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The EU’s top court has reaffirmed that EU trademarks can only be blocked by rights still in force at the time of the final decision on their registration. Experts say that in preventing oppositions based on ri... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court's appeal judge has ruled that a European patent must cover all participating EU states to qualify for unitary protection, rejecting an attempt to exclude Malta and declining to seek gu... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson signed off on every invoice submitted by the company’s agent in Egypt, even those that seemed unusual, Hobson's ex-colleague testified Wednesday in his US corruption trial.
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Paxful Holdings Inc., an online virtual currency trading platform, was sentenced to pay a criminal penalty of $4 million based on its ability to pay following its guilty plea to conspiracies to p... (more story)
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its inquiry into whether Stryker Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the company said in an annual earnings report.
Financial Services View More
February 11, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Just days after Erebor, a Bitcoin-focused digital bank, became the first national bank chartered by the second Trump administration, a major group made up of more traditional banks called for changes in the ch... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The issue of reviewing the EU bank capital framework will be raised by some member states during an informal meeting of EU leaders on competitiveness on Feb. 12 at a castle in eastern Belgium. These informal d... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena executive Stefano Di Stefano has resigned from the Italian lender, it said Wednesday. The departure comes after an investigation was opened into Stefano following ... (more story)
Trade View More
February 11, 2026 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
A coalition of domestic producers for citric acids and certain citrate salts argued in a preliminary US International Trade Commission hearing on Wednesday that more trade relief is needed to protect the indus... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted in a final determination that a domestic industry is materially injured by dumped and subsidized imports of multifunctional acrylate and me... (more story)
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A large group of US manufacturers associations voiced concerns over the use of Section 232 investigations, arguing that the added tariffs on top of tariffs imposed by other policies create signif... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission suspects that tax breaks and "preferential financing" handed to Goldwind by banks controlled by the Chinese state may distort competition in the EU, according to an offici... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An EU in-depth state aid investigation into Lithuania's support to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity covering the 2013-2018 period is now open for comments.... (more story)
February 10, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Italian defense company Leonardo requested the EU Commission's approval to acquire the defense unit of European truckmaker Iveco, according to an update on the regulator's website. Iveco Defence is spun off fr... (more story)
Energy View More
February 11, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
To keep pace in the race to rollout nuclear small modular reactors, Europe needs to prioritize collaboration between governments and manufacturers and focus on the most promising designs, the European Commissi... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU industrial competitiveness has deteriorated across most key performance indicators, according to a report published Wednesday by Deloitte and commissioned by a group of 25 EU industrial sector... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Revenue from the EU’s Emissions Trading System should be redirected more strongly to support industrial decarbonization, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. She ... (more story)
Technology View More
February 11, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Texas is the latest state to sue Snap Inc., claiming it deceptively portrayed its messaging app as being safe for minors while subjecting them to graphic content and product features designed to encourage compulsive use.
February 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against Snap, Inc. for allegedly failing to adequately warn parents and consumers about inappropriate material on the platform and the app’s ... (more story)
February 11, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Tech companies that are subject to the EU's digital services law may have to wait longer for the bloc to set out how their user numbers should be calculated, a significant bone of contention about the rules, a... (more story)