Apple Tells 9th Circuit Epic Did Not Prove Harm To Support UCL Claim

Mealey's (July 19, 2022, 2:02 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a July 15 across-appellant brief, Apple Inc. tells the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that Epic Games Inc. did not establish any harm from its purportedly anticompetitive behavior related to the distribution and sale of apps and related products for the Apple operating system (iOS), asking the appeals court to reverse a trial court’s “unprecedented” finding that Apple acted anti-competitively under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) despite finding no such violations of the Sherman Act....