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A French ski instructors’ union, which was fined in March for restricting its members’ professional mobility, this week saw the national regulator disclose the public version of the decision. The document deta... (more story)

Ireland’s competition watchdog is entering a “new era,” with an increase in administrative enforcement outcomes under new enforcement rules being a major priority, an official told MLex. Úna Butler said the CC... (more story)

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera sees a world where international law is imperiled by the US doctrine of “might is right.” She is determined to keep power politics out of antitrust enforcement and apply the ... (more story)

A Tokyo court dismissed a trademark infringement suit over a “dinosaur test” label, finding that the plaintiff’s registered logo had to be assessed as a unified design rather than broken into its textual eleme... (more story)

Chinese companies are accelerating their global expansion, driven by a surge in domestic innovation, but are increasingly encountering legal and regulatory headwinds as they enter foreign markets, a report showed.

Harvard College’s insulin-cell patent rejection was overturned by an Indian court, which cited a "glaring error" by the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks. The Delhi High Court ordered a fr... (more story)

EU steelmakers are urging the European Commission to widen the scope of its carbon border levy, to tighten anti-circumvention rules, and to delay any move to include pre-consumer steel scrap as a precursor. Ad... (more story)

MLex Summary: Safer e-commerce and fairer competition must be a priority as low-value imports from China put growing pressure on the EU single market, a group of lawmakers said on Thursday after their first of... (more story)

MLex Summary: EU steelmakers are calling for a broader extension of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream goods, tougher anti-circumvention measures and the exclusion of pre-consumer steel scrap... (more story)

An umbrella group of EU data protection authorities will release guidelines on anonymization — a key concept on how the bloc’s data protection rules are applied to personal data — by the summer, the group’s ch... (more story)

UK adults are increasingly using AI tools in everyday life, with some turning to chatbots for advice and conversation, research by the media regulator Ofcom shows. The study comes as the UK examines how to reg... (more story)

MLex Summary: UK adults are posting less on social media, and the proportion of users who feel that the benefits of being online outweigh the risks has fallen to 59 percent — down from 72 percent last year — n... (more story)