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China plans 7 trillion yuan infrastructure push to support AI economy
China plans to invest more than 7 trillion yuan ($1 trillion) this year in infrastructure and public-service facilities, including artificial intelligence-related c... (more story)
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South Korean auditor questions KFTC's cartel leniency, fine calculations, case handling
South Korea’s competition regulator was faulted by the country’s audit watchdog over some core parts of its enforcement work, with auditors flagging loopholes in ca... (more story)
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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law
A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coo... (more story)
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Sony deliberately closed off its PlayStation game platform to control the retailing of games and lock out competitors, a UK mass claimant pursuing compensation from the company told a UK judge on Wednesday. At... (more story)
How to combat manufacturers' restrictions on retailers or wholesalers from sourcing products across borders within the EU? The question will be front and center in a three-month consultation to be opened by th... (more story)
Stillwater Pastoral has urged a panel of judges hearing its Australian antitrust appeal to look beyond technical trading details and consider the "massive impacts" of price spikes on the Australia’s wholesale ... (more story)
China’s top court is drafting guiding opinions on the adjudication of artificial intelligence-related disputes while promoting a cautious, case-by-case approach, a senior judge said. Li Jian, chief judge of th... (more story)
Cross-industry guidelines clarifying how competition law applies to transactions involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data will be issued in Japan, the country’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesd... (more story)
China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate has underscored a broader push to integrate digital tools into legal supervision, with four annual white papers detailing how big data models and intelligent systems are ... (more story)
Standard-essential patent disputes should be steered back toward their contractual core rather than stretched to fit antitrust enforcement, a senior Chinese antitrust adviser said at a conference Wednesday in Shenzhen.
Japan’s antitrust watchdog reduced its administrative fine against Dentsu Group by roughly one-third to 345.56 million yen ($2.2 million) on Wednesday, following the finalization of a criminal fine in the Toky... (more story)
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US states suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster over alleged monopolization of the entertainment ticketing industry have quick and critical decisions to make this week on the timing and means of how to pursue cla... (more story)
Brazil’s antitrust authority is turning up the pressure on Ericsson and Motorola, demanding detailed explanations for their global litigation tactics in a long‑running 5G patent dispute that the companies had ... (more story)
California’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon over alleged price-fixing could allow the state to have the conduct evaluated under a stricter legal standard, something it failed to secure earl... (more story)
Sony's defense — at an upcoming mass claim trial in the UK over alleged exploitative conduct through its PlayStation operation — bets on convincing competition judges that the videogames sector has unique mark... (more story)
President Lee Jae Myung’s aggressive rhetoric on collusion and pricing can be read as a politically understandable push to restore market order and relieve pressure on households. But for the Korea Fair Trade ... (more story)
The US Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a price-fixing case over Circana’s PotatoTrack product, maintaining a focus on anticompetitive information sharing and further clarifying the condi... (more story)
The US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission’s joint inquiry over potential reissuance of guidance on collaboration between competitors is a green light for heavy lobbying from the antitrust ba... (more story)
US policymakers have shown an increased interest in standard-essential patents (SEPs) in recent months, as stakeholders tell MLex that 2026 will be critical for both patent owners and standard implementers. Wi... (more story)