Late Thursday, Alphabet’s Google asked the US court to pitch out numerous accusations made by Epic, Match, and US state attorneys general about how the research and advertising conglomerate run its app store for Android phones.
The company’s latest bid to finish costly and long-drawn-out antitrust lawsuits is Google’s gesture. It requested Washington’s federal court to terminate claims in a 2020 antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department. Besides, it has asked a Virginia federal court to discharge a complaint that the federal government filed this year.
The company said in an exchange filing that Google plans to justify itself at trial and defend the innovation that made Android effective. It also noted that it brought a targeted motion for partial summary judgment, narrowing this extensive antitrust case trial.
On Thursday, in its court filing at California’s federal court, Google asked for the five claims to be thrown out.
Thus, it asked the court to toss out accusations that Google had forbidden the other app stores’ distribution, therefore, breaking the law. Then, Google argued for not having a legal compulsion to put other app stores in Android. Most Android phones come preloaded with more than one app store, and others can be easily installed.
Additionally, the court was asked to toss out accusations related to Project Hug, where Google remunerated game developers to retain their games in Google’s Play Store instead of releasing them freely. Again, Google claimed that game developers are not prohibited from making alternate app stores.
Google also claimed that revenue-sharing contracts with wireless carriers expired four years ago, excluding the statute of limitations.