Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to reports on the evening of April 21, Beijing time, Google today asked the court to dismiss several antitrust charges filed by Epic Games, Match and state attorneys general of the United States about how Google operates the Android app store.

In addition, Google asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department in 2020 and a federal court in Virginia to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the federal government earlier this year.

Analysts say Google's series of motions is also the company's latest effort to end these expensive and time-consuming antitrust lawsuits as soon as possible.

"We look forward to proving our innocence in the trial and defend a series of innovations made by Google to ensure the success of Android," Google said in a court filing today. "

At the same time, Google said it had put forward a targeted motion in the hope that the judge would make a partial "summary judgment", that is, allowing the judge to make substantive and binding decisions on all or some of the cases directly without a trial, which will help narrow the scope of this intricate antitrust case.

In documents filed today in federal court in Utah, Google asked the judge to dismiss five charges. Among them, Google asked the court to dismiss the charge that "Google forbids other app stores". Google says it has no legal obligation to install other app stores on Android. But in fact, most Android phones come pre-installed with more than one app store, and users can install other app stores.

Game developer Epic Games has accused Google of using its Project Hug plan to buy off app developers in an attempt to prevent them from releasing their games in app stores outside Google Play. Google, on the other hand, argues that it has not prevented game developers from using app stores other than Google Play.

In addition, Google asked the court to dismiss allegations that it had signed a revenue-sharing agreement with mobile operators. Google said its revenue-sharing agreement with mobile operators expired more than four years ago and was not within the statute of limitations.

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