After the latest portion of a long legal battle, Apple has come out on top over Fortnite developer Epic Games, with an appeals court siding with Apple on nine out of 10 claims.
“Today’s decision reaffirms Apple’s resounding victory in this case,” an Apple spokesperson told CNBC following the decision. “For the second time in two years, a federal court has ruled that Apple abides by antitrust laws at the state and federal levels.”
The initial ruling came in a year and a half ago (check out our extensive coverage), when California courts concluded that they could not prove that Apple was engaging in monopolistic behavior under federal or state laws. The trial did show, though, that “Apple is engaging in anticompetitive conduct under California’s competition laws,” according to the ruling. This was the one count that the court sided with Epic on, and this was upheld in Monday’s decision.