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  Ex-Clifford Chance Pro Says £8M Libel Claim Is SLAPP

  By William Janes

  Legal commentator Dan Neidle asked a court on Tuesday to use new powers to throw out an £8 million ($11 million)...(read more)

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  EU's Copyright Calls Too Late To Dent AI Boom

  By Alex Baldwin

  Recent calls from European lawmakers to apply stringent copyright provisions for artificial intelligence systems...(read more)

• Top EU Court Decision Could Drag Out TM Claims

  By Alex Baldwin

  The European Union's highest court has cleared the way for parties to delay trademark cancellations, in a decision on post-Brexit challenges that lawyers say will affect trademark claims long after the 2020 transition has become a distant memory.

• AstraZeneca Unit Settles Soliris Feud With Samsung, Amgen

  By Jamie Lennox

  AstraZeneca subsidiary Alexion has settled its claims in the U.K. that Samsung and Amgen infringed a patent covering blood disease drug Soliris, closing the case several months after the Court of Appeal refused to block sales of the defendants' biosimilar drugs.

• Solicitor Found Guilty Of Stalking Legal Blogger

  By Christopher Crosby

  A London judge convicted a solicitor on Tuesday of stalking a legal blogger after he sent numerous, unwanted and "aggressive" emails proposing sex and threatening litigation if his advances were rejected.

• WhatsApp Can Contest €225M Privacy Fines After ECJ Ruling

  By Sophia Dourou

  WhatsApp can pursue its challenge to an order from a European Union board for Irish authorities to increase a data-protection fine to €225 million ($268 million), the bloc's top court said Tuesday.

• FCA Hits 2 With Fines For Insider Trading In Bidstack Shares

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said Tuesday that it has hit a former interim financial director and a trader with a combined fine of £108,731 ($148,800) for insider dealing in shares in an advertising technology company.

• Lloyds Beats Bias Claims Over Anti-Zionist Staff Posts

  By Jamie Lennox

  A London tribunal has ruled that Lloyds did not discriminate against two Muslim staffers after they faced disciplinary action for making anti-Zionist statements in 2021 amid Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.

• EU Moves To Block Meta's WhatsApp Restriction On AI Rivals

  By William Janes

  The European Union's competition regulator revealed Monday it plans to impose restrictive measures on Meta over suspicions that the tech giant has breached antitrust rules by excluding third-party artificial intelligence apps from WhatsApp.

• Bristol Airport Challenges Cardiff's £200M Subsidy Package

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Bristol Airport told a tribunal on Monday that it "relishes" competition but that a decision by the Welsh government to provide its geographical neighbor Cardiff Airport with a subsidy package worth £205 million ($280 million) was neither fair nor lawful.

• Boohoo Investors Battle Over Split £177M Sweatshop Trial

  By Sophia Dourou

  Investors argued on Monday that the question of whether misleading statements by Boohoo on its use of sweatshops induced them to invest in the fast fashion giant should be determined at the second stage of their £177 million ($242 million) claim.

• Slaughter And May Leads NatWest £2.7B Wealth Manager Buy

  By Dawood Fakhir

  NatWest said Monday that it has agreed to acquire British wealth manager Evelyn Partners from Permira, a global investment company, and private equity firm Warburg Pincus for £2.7 billion ($3.7 billion) to boost its private banking and wealth management business.

• Weil Helps Advent, FedEx Buy Poland's InPost For €7.8B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  A consortium that includes U.S. private equity firm Advent International LP and FedEx Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to buy InPost for €7.8 billion ($9.2 billion) to back the growth in Europe of the Polish parcel locker company.

• How Olympians Can Skate Over Thin Ice With IP Law In Milan

  By Jamie Lennox

  As the world's top athletes descend on northern Italy for Friday's opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics, they must prepare to walk a tightrope of intellectual property rules that are unique among global sports tournaments.