🔎 As Trump turns up the heat on trading partners, MLex journalists including @lewis_crofts, @JoannaSopinska and @oscarpandiello unpick the implications of an increasingly politicized regulatory environment ⬇️ 🔓

📍 On 27 Feb MLex joins @economistimpact Antitrust Summit, London, with Editor-at-Large @lewis_crofts set to moderate 'Power and pressure: examining independence and governance in the world's top competition agencies.' 🔖 Full agenda & registration info:

📢 'The EU’s proposed updates to the legal framework for patent licensing risks undermining the Unified Patent Court, an association of intellectual property judges have warned in a letter seen by MLex.' 🔎 Newly ungated story by @InbarPreiss: #IP #UPC

📢 On 26 Feb, the @OECD Competition Open Day returns to Paris, with MLex as proud media partner. 📖 Access this #OECDcomp paper now to get ready for the event ➡️ 🎫 And register for the day here ➡️

🗞️ Yesterday MLex reported on the EU’s General Court ruling that the @EU_EDPB has authority to order Ireland’s data regulator to launch new investigations into Meta Platforms. 🔓 Access the newly ungated article from @JH_Tar for more detail ⬇️

👏 Congrats to @ForumEurope on their European 5G conference this week, which welcomed @BertuzLuca and @NewmanMLex to moderate insightful discussions on the path towards digital transformation and clarifying the definition of '5G'. 📍

🔎Access newly ungated analysis on how an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, requiring federal employees to return to their offices 5 days per week, could derail the USPTO’s hiring momentum, impacting efforts to rein in #patent pendency ⬇️

♟️ Next month, MLex joins @economistimpact Antitrust Summit in London as a media partner, alongside 350+ antitrust pros, from senior policymakers & corp legal leaders to academic experts. For full details & to register ➡️ #antitrust #competitionlaw #AI

🎉 To mark Data Protection Day on 28 Jan, the Council of Europe, CPDP Conferences and @EU_EDPS will host an event (in Brussels and online) focused on the current and future landscape of data protection. 📢 MLex Managing Editor Europe @kbolongaro will moderate session 1⬇️

📢 There's still time to watch this week's 'Bruxelles, je t'aime' on @euronews, with MLex Managing Editor for Europe @kbolongaro discussing EU security challenges, the political situation in Austria and latest changes in the international media landscape:

📢 On 28 Jan MLex journalists @Swiftstories and @NewmanMLex will join distinguished speakers discussing the evolving global landscape of #dataprivacy & #AI regulation at an online event hosted by @PrivacyRulesltd. 📍 Register now:

📢 Join us in Brussels on 11 March, alongside @OxeraConsulting and @PaulWeissLLP, for a conference digging into the rapidly-evolving landscape of merger control and antitrust enforcement amid new administrations across the Atlantic. 📍 Register here:

📢 Next week MLex will be a media partner at THE ITALIAN SYSTEM IN THE NEW EU LEGISLATURE, an event in Brussels in collaboration with @Europarl_EN, with @BertuzLuca set to moderate a panel on the telecoms sector. 📅 15 January 🔎 Full program ⬇️

🔎 A shrinking population means Japan’s transition from manufacturing-based economy to one driven by #IP is crucial, but the shift is complicated by the limited talent-base needed for innovation & growth in IP industries. New analysis by @tokosekiguchi ⬇️

🔎 Dive into a ungated collection of Editor's Picks from our new Intellectual Property service now, with recent stories from MLex bureaus across the US, Europe and Asia ⬇️ 📍

🗞️ 'The head of Australia’s online-safety watchdog failed to disclose her attendance at a secretive, all-expenses-paid tech-policy and strategy retreat funded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest.' 🔓 Access the ungated exclusive from @ryan_cropp Cropp➡️

🔎 The EU has spent ~15 years turning up the heat on US tech giants. But with Trump headed to the White House, the @EU_Commission faces a tricky call: to fine or not to fine? 🔓 Access analysis from @lewis_crofts, @nicholashirst_ & @NewmanMLex now ⬇️

🗣️ Today, MLex Editor-at-Large @lewis_crofts is at the European Parliament moderating discussions on 'Enforcing for Change in the App Ecosystem — What's next for the #DigitalMarketsAct', at an event hosted by MEP @Andreas_Schwab and the Coalition for App Fairness ⬇️

📣 Introducing MLex Intellectual Property! Get the inside track, with deep news and forward-looking analysis on legal and regulatory change across patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. 🔓 Access a curated collection of Editor's Picks now ⬇️

🔎 As lawsuits re Cambridge Analytica scandal reach some of the world’s highest courts, @Meta Platforms continues to pour legal resources into fighting regulators across the globe. 🔓 Access newly ungated analysis by @ByMaddieHughes & @Swiftstories now⬇️