Google granted request to pause order on Play store overhaul

Donato delayed the injunction to let the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to see Google’s abstracted petition to intermission the judge’s order.

Donato denied Google’s abstracted petition to intermission the bid for the duration of its broader entreaty successful the case.

“We’re pleased with the District Court’s determination to temporarily intermission the implementation of unsafe remedies demanded by Epic, arsenic the Court of Appeal considers our petition to further intermission the remedies portion we appeal,” Google said successful a statement.

Epic successful a connection called Donato’s ruling a procedural step, and said the tribunal “made it wide that Google’s entreaty is meritless and rejected their petition to hold opening up Android devices to contention portion the entreaty is ongoing.”

Epic accused Google of utilizing “fearmongering and unsubstantiated information threats to support their power implicit Android devices and proceed extracting exorbitant fees.”

In the Epic Games lawsuit, a assemblage past twelvemonth recovered that Google illegally monopolized however consumers download apps connected Android devices and however they wage for in-app transactions. The judge, successful his order, embraced galore of the steps recommended by Epic successful airy of the jury’s decision.

The bid required Google to let users to download competing third-party Android app platforms oregon stores successful Play and to let the usage of competing in-app outgo methods. It besides barred Google from making payments to instrumentality makers to preinstall its app store and from sharing gross generated from the Play store with different app distributors.

Google has already appealed the jury’s antitrust findings to the 9th Circuit.

Google has not presented its antitrust arguments to the appeals court. It antecedently has said that it cannot beryllium considered a monopolist due to the fact that Play and Apple’s App Store are nonstop competitors, and that Donato’s injunction would unlawfully unit Google to bash concern with rivals.