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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford
North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Trade
March 26, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Antitrust View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Construction group Marko has been fined a total of €103,000 by the Austrian cartel court for pricing agreements, market division and information exchange with rivals as part of public and private... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Autotrader, Feefo, Dignity, Just Eat and Pasta Evangelists are being investigated as part of a UK crackdown in relation to fake or misleading reviews in sectors including funerals, food delivery, and car sales... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission said it is preparing to scrutinize Grab's planned acquisition of Foodpanda's Taiwan operations, as lawmakers raised concerns over Uber's stake in Grab and potential monopoly risk... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Japanese exhibitors dominated displays of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and chemical materials at one of China’s largest chip industry trade shows, underscoring how Chinese manufacturers and internatio... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea is moving to introduce a sweeping general class action regime, putting the Ministry of Justice at the center of an overhaul that could recalibrate both corporate risk and how consumers are compensa... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US District Judge Rita Lin has granted Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump Administration from declaring the artificial intelligence a supply-chain risk. She enjoi... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Telenor’s planned acquisition of GlobalConnect could weaken competition in the broadband service market, the Norwegian competition authority has said. The regulator has sent a statement of object... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK review of Brazilian pulp and paper maker Suzano's proposed acquisition of a majority stake in Kimberly-Clark’s tissue business has started, the antitrust regulator said. The Competition an... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in plans by Air France-KLM and Airbus to create a joint venture to provide maintenance services for Airbus A350 aircraft components have now ten days to provide feedback to the... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Social media platforms should be required to make their algorithms transparent to the public under changes to the Online Safety Act, a group of UK lawmakers urged in a report Friday. The UK Parli... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The use of screens should be avoided by children under the age of two and restricted to one hour a day for children under five years old, the UK government has said. The guidance said “fast-paced... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened infringement procedures against 22 EU countries, including Belgium, France and the Netherlands, according to a press release published on Friday, for failing to... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, Europe
A Japan Patent Office ruling upholding a Chinese university’s patent on high-speed 3D microscopy is under review at Japan’s IP High Court, in a dispute over whether linking scan speed, excitation timing and re... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Major Chinese technology companies are emerging as active participants in video codec patent pools while also playing a larger part in shaping standard-essential patent, or SEP, licensing frameworks.
March 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe, North America
A top EU official has defended her agency’s approval of cooperation between German carmakers over the licensing of technologies after the companies drew antitrust scrutiny from US regulators. She appeared to b... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed an administrative monetary penalty on Northern Isga Foundation — a nonprofit charitable organization authorized by the Ale... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Damen Shipyards Group said allegations of fraud and sanctions violations brought by Dutch prosecutors have had a “significant impact” on the company. Units of the conglomerate faces bribery and sanctions claim... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: At the joint request of the prosecution and the defense, a US judge rescheduled the corruption trial of former medical device company executive David Ferrera to May 2027. At his arraignment, the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Dinosaur Merchant Bank has been fined £338,000 for failing to put in place effective systems and controls to detect and report suspicious trading in its contracts for difference business. The UK'... (more story)
March 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government has welcomed a set of industry-led recommendations aiming to unlock investment from the financial sector to help high-emitting sectors transition to net zero.
March 27, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
An unusually divided US Federal Reserve voted to approve the acquisition of Morgan Stanley’s German-based securities and foreign trading unit by the banking giant’s New York-based national bank. The internal r... (more story)
Trade View More
March 27, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
China has opened two trade barrier investigations into US measures affecting global supply chains and green product trade, signaling a calibrated response to Washington’s renewed use of Section 301 tools ahead... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU measures in place to tackle subsidization of aluminum converter foil imports from China are scheduled to expire on Dec. 23 this year, the European Commission said Friday. The measures will exp... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has started a safeguard investigation into imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel, a formal notice published Friday shows. An a... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: France's planned €144 million state aid for HyforSeeds to produce renewable and low-carbon hydrogen for the fertilizer sector has been approved by the European Commission. HyforSeeds, a subsidiar... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Luxembourg’s €500 million state aid for “cleantech” manufacturing has been approved by the European Commission. The authority said it was the first program by a small member state cleared based o... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The South Korean government has warned that it may cut public funding for egg and pork producers’ associations and suspend their licenses if the country’s competition regulator confirms they have... (more story)
Energy View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Seventy-seven German mostly small and medium-sized companies are facing possible fines for failing to start the rollout of smart meters in 20 percent of their eligible installations by the end of... (more story)
March 26, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US State Department launched a $250 million fund for overseas critical minerals projects as part of a new fund, called Pax Silica, which has signed several countries to the effort already to ... (more story)
March 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Concentrated clean-energy supply chains leave key technologies vulnerable to disruption, with China dominating most manufacturing steps and every major chain containing at least one weak link, an... (more story)
Technology View More
March 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Autotrader, Feefo, Dignity, Just Eat and Pasta Evangelists are under investigation as part of a crackdown on fake and misleading reviews, the UK antitrust regulator said. The Competition and Mark... (more story)
March 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs said on Friday it had restored access to Wikimedia Commons, a subdomain of Wikimedia, after a temporary restriction. The ministry said t... (more story)
March 26, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A senior Live Nation touring executive told jurors Thursday at a high-profile antitrust trial that the company will book artists to perform at a venue regardless of which vendor handles the facility’s ticketin... (more story)