Google's lawyer and “Fortnite” manufacturer Epic Games, in order to forced the search giant to overturn JU's judge and the judge's order to reinforce the App Store, the California Federal Appeals on Monday. I will refuse in front of the court.
Google claimed that the judge had made a legal error in the 2023 anti -trade ruling, which was based in the 9th Public Appeals Court, based in San Francisco.
Epic accused the 2020 lawsuit that Google is illegally operating monopoly on how to pay in -app transactions by Google access to the app. CARY based in NC Be convinced JU JU in San Francisco in 2023 has suppressed the competition in which Google has been illegally suppressed.
James Donat, a US judge, called Google's actions “deeply and annoying,” and said, “I have never seen such a terrible thing.”
In October, he ordered Google to download a rival app store in the Google Play Store and make the application tallogs available to competitors. The order is on hold because the court is considering Google's appeal.
Google has already endured the fierce competition with Apple's App Store, and unfairly allowed Donato to inform JU referees that Epic and Apple are not direct competitors. I claim that it is.
Google also stated that Donato is wrong to issue an order not only in epic but also to users and developers nationwide.
Google claimed that the judge was acting as a “central planner in charge of product design”.
Google instructed an the post October blog post Announcing the decision on the appeal and warns that the order of an orderly change will “cause unintended results that harm American consumers, developers and device manufacturers.”
The video game manufacturer asked the ninth round to refuse Google's appeal and accused him of “long -term strategy to suppress competition between app store and payment solutions.”
In a statement, Epic stated that “JU's judge and court will be supported to guarantee that Google will be held to explain its anti -competitive behavior.”
Microsoft has filed a brief with the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to support epic.
The ninth round of rounds may make a ruling in the second half of this year. The decision can be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
In September, Epic filed a second anti -trade lawsuit against Google, accusing Samsung to accuse the high -tech giant by suppressing rival application developers.
Meanwhile, Google's search engine was dominated by monopoly in a groundbreaking case in August, and recently lost bidding to reject the third anti -trade lawsuit in the digital advertising business.
With post wire
