Google asks the Supreme Court to intervene and pause the decision that the company received in its trial with Epic Games, according to a file that the company shared with Engadget. The company requests as a result of a major legal loss for Epic Games in October 2024, which forced it to open the Google Play Store to third -party application stores for a period of three years.
Google asks the judges to intervene by October 17, three days before the epic injunction won begins to enter into force. The company hopes that after having offered a suspension, the court will resume the case for a complete examination. Asking the Supreme Court of Repair would not even have entered the image if Google’s call had not already been. The company’s file includes several technical reasons for which the decision of the ninth short circuit should be canceled. It also offers several examples for which the original Epic Won injunction is bad for Google, developers and consumers.
Google believes the injunction “[creates] Huge risks of security and security by allowing stores that store malicious, deceptive or hacked content to proliferate “, and that it makes developers with” the company as a manufacturer of tens or hundreds of stores that could suddenly transport their applications to their knowledge. “The company also notes that the injunction will not do anything to do for developers to avoid offset Google,” for reading games that will do nothing with payments.
At the end of his four -year legal battle with Fortnite Developer Epic, Google was not only ordered to open the Play Store in third -party application stores, it is also not authorized to conclude agreements on the preinstallation of the Play Store on phones or strength developers to use its billing system. Unlike the case of Epic with Apple, where the developer won only a small concession, but significant, the loss of Google gave Epic almost all that he asked for.
When Apple and Google asked the Supreme Court to examine their business last year, the court rejected its requests without explanation. It is not clear if Google will get what he wants, but given the much greater changes, he will be obliged to do if the injunction advances, it is possible that the court can respond differently.
