The California State Assembly, in a 44–17 vote, approved legislation that would broaden California’s primary antitrust statute to tackle anticompetitive conduct by a single company, sending the bill to the Sen... (more story)

Corteva Agriscience and Inari Agriculture will ask a federal judge Friday to decide whether biotechnology companies can restrict downstream use of biological materials they were required to deposit publicly in... (more story)

MLex summary: Brazil’s competition authority Superintendence has recommended closing its investigation into fuel retailers’ union Minaspetro, finding insufficient evidence of anti-competitive conduct linked to... (more story)

The discovery of over 1.4 million patent assignment records that were previously not published in US Patent and Trademark Office data highlights the importance of data transparency and reliability for business... (more story)

This week, the UPC saw multiple infringement actions, among them a successful bid by tire manufacturer Pirelli against Chinese rival Tianjin Kingtyre Group. The Court of Appeal upheld two decisions, but revoke... (more story)

EasyGroup, the parent company for a range of brands including the popular easyJet airline, has seen its trademark for standalone word “easy” invalidated by the UK Intellectual Property Office. The decision lea... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Richard Eaton said Customs and Border Protection must update its progress toward implementing refunds for finally liquidated entries paid as now-illegal tari... (more story)

Representatives of US industry called for the imposition of countervailing and antidumping duties for Chinese N-cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulfenamide (CBS) before the US International Trade Commission in a pre... (more story)

MLex Summary: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar announced a preliminary framework agreement on critical minerals cooperation between the two nations... (more story)

Telecom operators such as Deutsche Telekom and Colt Technology want national regulators to target specific regional or local markets for market “bottlenecks” that harm competition, rather than focusing only on... (more story)

AliExpress’s Digital Services Act case is emerging as an early test of how the European Commission plans to enforce the bloc’s platform rules, including whether the regulator can treat sprawling tech groups as... (more story)

MLex Summary: Temu has been fined €200 million under the EU’s Digital Services Act for failing to properly assess systemic risks linked to illegal products sold on its marketplace, marking only the second non-... (more story)