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title: "Epic v. Apple: An Epic Fail?"
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# Epic v. Apple: An Epic Fail?

  February 2022

Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

This article by partner [David Evans](/Our-People/David-H-Evans) reviews the Epic suit of Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that Apple’s iOS walled garden, and, specifically, that its refusal to allow app makers to use a payment system other than the Apple store, the privilege of which cost app makers 30 percent of the fee collected, violated the Sherman Act and the California Unfair Competition Law (“UCL”).

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