It’s been nearly 10 months since a trial date was set in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit in opposition to Google, and with the entire different massive tech instances occurring proper now, together with Google’s different antitrust proceedings, you’d be forgiven for forgetting about this one. However imagine it or not, the trial will start in less than a month, on November sixth, in america District Court docket in California’s Northern District.
The court docket launched a tentative checklist of witnesses, largely executives and leads from each firms, on Thursday. Epic listed 53 witnesses it both will or would possibly name, together with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, and Epic CEO Tim Sweeney.
Andy Rubin, one of many co-founders of the Android working system and Important, can also be on the checklist. He labored at Google till 2014 when he left with a reported $90 million payout following allegations of sexual misconduct. He’s listed within the court docket doc as a “could name” witness, so it’s doable he received’t take the stand.
Different witnesses embrace two different Android co-founders — Nick Sears, who left Google in 2013 is on Epic’s checklist, whereas Wealthy Miner might be referred to as by Google, the place he nonetheless works. Epic additionally listed Activision CFO Armin Zerza and former Open Handset Alliance head Eric Chu.
Epic is suing Google over its Google Play retailer practices, alleging that, after Epic departed the Google Play retailer, Google launched an anticompetitive marketing campaign to maintain different builders from following go well with, even going as far as to pay hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to some.
