Epic Games och Google anklagas för ”kompisavtal”

Epic Games v. Google is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California, and later ruled upon under the name In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2025. Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic challenged Google's monopolistic practices in its Google Play Store while selling apps for its Android devices. A jury trial was held in late 2023, with the jury finding for Epic on all counts, and ruling that Google violated anti-trust laws in maintaining the Play Store as the only practical app store for Android. The charge included Google's practice of making deals to ensure apps would be solely published through the Play Store and requiring the Play Store to be installed on third-party devices. The court ordered Google to allow alternate app stores on the Android system and temporarily restricted the company from offering monetary benefits to developers that released exclusively on Google's Play Store. The decision was upheld on appeal to the Ninth Circuit.