Category: Epic Games v. Google
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Google vehemently objects to Epic’s proposed worldwide injunction, raises intellectual property issues like Apple
Google has raised 93 pages of objections to Epic Games’ proposed injunction, with more than 250 pages of supporting material.
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Epic Games requests 14-page U.S. injunction against Google to strengthen alternative Android app distribution channels
Further to its December 2023 trial win, Epic Games has now proposed a permanent injunction that would comprehensively require Google to allow alternative Android app stores to compete on equal footing.
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Epic defends jury trial win over Google, disputes that Android-specific markets are single-brand aftermarkets
Epic Games generally has strong arguments that Judge Donato instructed the jury in accordance with controlling law and that the jury had substantial evidence before it to reach the conclusions it did. The most transcendental legal question in the case involves single-brand markets.
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Disney-Epic Games alliance has important past and current connections with Apple, Google app store fights
App store antitrust matters are not mentioned in the announcement of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, but there are important implications, some of which are not merely speculative.
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Google wants Epic’s jury trial win overturned or at least a new trial, then without a jury: long list of arguments
Context: Last year, a San Francisco jury found for Epic Games on all counts against Google in an antitrust litigation over the Google Play Store. A motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) that Google brought before jury deliberations even began was limited by the judge to only two pages, yet provided an…
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Google’s likely strategy to neutralize the Epic v. Google verdict
After a jury sided 100% with Epic Games against Google in the Android app distribution antitrust case, Google will seek to have the jury verdict tossed or at least minimize the impact of any remedies.