Google countersues Epic Games using Apple’s recent legal arguments

With the best way that information goes within the ongoing Epic Video games vs. Apple court docket case, it is likely to be straightforward to overlook that Epic Video games equally sued Google on comparable grounds relating to the Android cell platform. Properly, following the current court docket determination from Epic Video games vs. Apple, Google has damaged silence launch a countersuit towards Epic. Greater than that, Google’s countersuit makes use of most of the arguments Apple efficiently used towards Epic Video games within the current authorized determination.

Google filed its countersuit towards Epic Video games pretty lately, with redacted variations of the total swimsuit showing on CourtListener on October 11, 2021. A big portion of the arguments introduced in Google’s countersuit are pretty just like the arguments specified by Apple’s personal mostly successful defense. Main amongst them had been that Epic’s lawsuit was predetermined and reliant upon goading the corporate into suable motion, signified by a prepared and immediately launched PR campaign arguably meant to achieve public help for its actions.

Google goes on to say that Epic’s Nineteen-Eighty-Fortnite PR marketing campaign, along with different particulars, such because the naming of its technique towards platforms resembling iOS and Android (“Project Liberty”) and the chatter of CEO Tim Sweeney, suggests Epic Video games entered into an settlement for which it had no intention to maintain.

“Not happy with these immense [Android] earnings, it entered right into a authorized settlement with Google with which it by no means meant to conform, deceiving Google and concealing its true intentions to impress a authorized and public relations confrontation that continues to today,” the swimsuit alleges.

It is going to stay to be seen if Google’s countersuit will observe the identical line and judgement because the preliminary verdict in Epic Video games vs. Apple, which is currently being appealed. Nonetheless, keep tuned as we proceed to observe this ongoing authorized saga for additional information and updates.