Google plans to appeal to the Supreme Court of India: revoke a $160 million antitrust fine

Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! According to news in the evening of January 5, Beijing time, two people familiar with the matter said today that Google plans to appeal to the Supreme Court of India in the next few days in an attempt to overturn the $160 million antitrust fine imposed on Google by India's Competition Commission (CCI).

Last October, India's CCI announced a fine of 13.38 billion rupees ($161.95 million) on Google for anti-competitive behavior related to Android mobile devices. In addition, CCI also asked Google not to provide smartphone makers with any incentives to exclusively pre-install Google's search service.

Google filed a lawsuit in an Indian appeals court on Tuesday, saying that the fine decision made by CCI in India largely copied the previous fine decision made by the European Commission and should be reversed.

"there were more than 50 plagiarism before and after, in some cases verbatim," Google said in an appeal filing at the time. As a result, India's CCI failed to conduct a fair, balanced and reasonable investigation. In fact, Google's mobile App distribution is competitive, not unfair and exclusive. "

But yesterday, Google's lawsuit was dismissed by the Indian Court of Appeal. The Indian Court of Appeal said at the time that, given the nature of the case, there was no need to issue any temporary order to block the fine decision of the Indian CCI.

Obviously, Google is not satisfied with the court's decision. Google plans to appeal to India's Supreme Court in the next few days, people familiar with the matter said today. Google believes that some of CCI's decisions are simply unenforceable and has no choice but to appeal to the Supreme Court, according to people familiar with the matter.

Google has yet to comment.