Category: Google Play
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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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EU launches full-blown App Store, Google Play investigations under DMA: tidal change or tempest in teapot?
The EU Commission has shown its determination to enforce the Digital Markets Act by launching full-blown investigations of suspected non-compliance by Apple, Google and Meta. With respect to mobile app stores, nothing will change in the marketplace for a long time to come, however.
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Google’s DMA compliance plan calls Digital Markets Act’s usefulness into question, one pricing detail ridicules the EU
Google’s Digital Markets Act compliance plan creates theoretical, but not practical, opportunities for third parties. Consumers won’t benefit. But the structure and the tone are more constructive than Apple’s, making Google a low enforcement priority.
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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…