ASV apelācijas tiesa atsakās no Google piedāvājuma, lai turpinātu pārtraukt Play veikala kapitālo remontu episkajās spēļu lietā

Alphabet’s Google failed on Friday (September 12, 2025) to persuade a U.S. appeals court to further freeze an order forcing it to make sweeping reforms to its App Store game while it challenges a decision by “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Google’s request to continue the injunction, which requires the tech company to restore competition by allowing users to download rival apps and making the Play app catalog available to competitors, among other things.

The appeals court said Google did not meet the high bar to stay the order. Google still has up to 10 months to comply with some key provisions of the underlying order and 30 days for others.

The appeals court said in a separate order that the full court would not review Google’s appeal. Google could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney praised the court order in a post on social media platform X and said developers and consumers will benefit from it soon.

EPIC accused Google in its 2020 lawsuit of monopolizing how consumers access apps on Android devices and pay for in-app transactions. The Cary, North Carolina-based company convinced a San Francisco jury in 2023 that Google was illegally stifling competition. U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco issued his own order in the case last year, requiring Google to review the Play Store. Google has denied any wrongdoing.

Judge Donato’s order said that Google cannot prohibit the app’s payment methods for three years and must allow users to download competing third-party Android app platforms or stores.

The order also restricts Google from pre-installing its App Store on payment device manufacturers and sharing revenue generated from the Play Store with other app distributors.

In upholding the order, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said in July that the Epic lawsuit record was “replete with evidence that Google’s anticompetitive actions cemented its dominance.” Google filed a motion with the appeals court on August 8 that Judge Donato’s order was “unprecedented” and would put Google and rival Apple on an uneven playing field.

Epic largely lost a similar lawsuit it filed against Apple in 2020, accusing it of monopolizing app distribution and payments.

Google said that if the jury verdict and Judge Donato’s order are left in place, Google and Apple will be “operating under different rules of law from this court’s two conflicting decisions.” Google said that if the jury verdict and Donato’s order are left in place, Google and Apple will be “operating under different rules of law from this court’s two conflicting decisions.”