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Judgment released in Epic Games' Australian antitrust case against Google

( September 12, 2025, 07:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Search giant Google behaves as if it is unconstrained by competitors, an Australian judge has said. In a judgment published on Friday, Federal Court of Australia Judge Jonathan Beach said that Google has been able to and acted in a manner unconstrained by competitors, “including by imposing tying arrangements.” In a separate judgment on the class-action lawsuits against Apple and Google, the judge found that the companies failed to grapple with the reality that, in the counterfactual where they had not engaged in anticompetitive conduct, developers would have had access to alternative distribution and payment channels and the competition would have forced lower commissions on in-app payments.The full judgments in the Epic Games v. Google case and the class-action lawsuit are attached.  ...

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