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India's Natco Pharma wields 'Gillette defense' against US FMC's patent-injunction claim November 24, 2025 | Freny Patel

India’s Natco Pharma has defeated US-based FMC Corporation’s bid for an interim injunction by successfully invoking the “Gillette Defense” in an insecticide patent dispute.

South Korea's antitrust watchdog set to undergo largest expansion in decades November 23, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

South Korea’s competition regulator is set to undergo its largest organizational expansion in decades, with plans to add 167 staff and create a new bureau and a regional office. The Korea Fair Trade Commission... (more story)

Zillow sought to regulate real estate, US judge says in Compass antitrust suit November 22, 2025 | Chris May

Internal Zillow documents presented as evidence during antitrust litigation brought by Compass Inc. over access to home-listing data essential to the entire residential real estate industry showed that Zillow ... (more story)

Proposed revival of Google Maps antitrust claims scrutinized by US appeals court November 22, 2025 | Mike Swift

Google pushed back on arguments by users of its mapping products trying to revive antitrust claims that center on the Google Maps terms of service, with a lawyer for the tech giant telling a three-judge panel ... (more story)

Judge in Google adtech suit has concerns over US DOJ divestiture remedy plan November 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

A Virginia federal judge Friday expressed concerns about the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedy to break up Google’s digital advertising technology business, questioning the government about how much t... (more story)

WhatsApp faces EU antitrust scrutiny over third-party AI chatbot policy November 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

WhatsApp has caught the eye of EU enforcers over a new policy to remove rival AI agents from the messaging platform, MLex has learned. The company behind AI assistant Poke.com called on the European Commission... (more story)

Google makes EU-wide data ‘consent’ changes after Italian pressure (update*) November 21, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Google will give users clearer information on how their data are handled across its suite of services after an Italian push for concessions that affect the company’s compliance with the EU's "gatekeeper" rules... (more story)

Indonesian regulator's order can't justify rate fixing, ex-commissioner tells hearing November 21, 2025 | Roffie Kuniawan

A former Indonesian antitrust commissioner told an interest-rate cartel hearing that the 0.8 percent daily lending-rate cap set by members of the fintech association AFPI could constitute cartel behavior even ... (more story)

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UK dental industry may find a market study proves a painful process November 19, 2025 | Jon Menon

The UK's dental industry may have reason to worry about the prospect of a UK antitrust study over fears voiced by the government that patients are getting a bad deal. Some parallels can be drawn from the curre... (more story)

AWS, Azure probes show political imperative to tackle ‘backbone’ of EU digital markets November 18, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services faced the near-inevitable news today that the EU’s tough gatekeeper rulebook was coming for their cloud businesses, thus delivering on political calls that the crucial i... (more story)

Publishers target Google in new antitrust phase of AI battle in US November 17, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A cluster of antitrust lawsuits against Google represents a new front for publishers seeking to hold artificial intelligence companies to account for allegedly competing with them unfairly for audience attenti... (more story)

Apple's UK mass claim over cloud has echoes of painful app store defeat November 17, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Apple’s bid this week to derail a planned mass claim that alleges anticompetitive harm from its cloud service has echoes of similar risk it faced in a claim over its app store — one that resulted in a landmark... (more story)

Routine decisions fueling heated exchanges among Brazil CADE councilors November 14, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

The Brazilian competition authority has seen two consecutive judgment sessions marked by an unusually tense atmosphere, as disagreements among councilors — traditionally confined to complex economic interpreta... (more story)

Google rankings probe sees EU watchdog engineer extensive DMA wiggle room November 13, 2025 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst

The fairness of Google’s ranking beyond instances of self-preferencing are now in EU antitrust enforcers' cross-hairs, signaling a broadening interpretation of a law initially focused on the search-engine favo... (more story)

US DOJ’s closed criminal concrete probe isn’t end of antitrust scrutiny November 12, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Chris May

The US Department of Justice has closed its grand jury probe into the concrete and cement additives industry — one of the few recent public investigations by the Antitrust Division of multi-jurisdictional cart... (more story)

As Brazil shapes betting rules, CADE joins crowded field of enforcers November 11, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazil’s betting industry isn’t just attracting lawmakers — it’s drawing a lineup of enforcement agencies. As Congress advances regulation, the Brazilian competition authority is stepping in alongside the Mini... (more story)