Will Google Antitrust Decision Affect Ongoing Lawsuits Against Apple And Meta? Legal Experts Are At Odds
Will Google Antitrust Decision Affect Ongoing Lawsuits Against Apple And Meta? Legal Experts Are At Odds
The historic ruling against Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of several in the Big Tech antitrust arena.
對Alphabet Inc（納斯達克：GOOG）（納斯達克：GOOGL）的歷史性裁決是大型科技反壟斷領域中的幾個裁決之一。
Google, deemed monopolistic, violated antitrust laws with its search engine, Judge Amit Mehta ruled.
法官阿米特·梅塔裁定，被認定爲壟斷的谷歌（Google）違反了反壟斷法。
Some experts say the verdict could affect similar lawsuits against other major companies, including Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL).
一些專家表示，這一判決可能影響針對其他主要公司的類似訴訟，包括Meta Platforms Inc（納斯達克：META）、亞馬遜公司（Amazon.com Inc，納斯達克：AMZN）和蘋果公司（Apple Inc，納斯達克：AAPL）。
The FTC, for example, is pursuing antitrust cases against Meta and Amazon for allegedly acting as monopolies.
例如，聯邦貿易委員會正在追查Meta和亞馬遜的反壟斷案件，稱其被指控行爲壟斷。
The Department of Justice is also pursuing a case against Apple. A trial will commence in September in a separate Justice Department case against Alphabet seeking to break up its ad tech operations.
司法部還在對蘋果提起了一起案件。在另一起司法部訴訟案中，將於9月開始審理，該訴訟案針對Alphabet的廣告技術業務進行拆分。
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a Vanderbilt University law professor who studies antitrust, told the New York Times that Mehta's Google decision is "a predictor of what other courts might do."
研究反壟斷的範德堡大學法學教授麗貝卡·霍·阿倫斯沃斯告訴《紐約時報》說，梅塔的谷歌決定是“其他法院可能會做出的判斷的預示”。
"You can also expect other judges to read this opinion and be influenced by it," she said.
她說：“你還可以期待其他法官閱讀這篇意見並受到其影響。”
In USA Today, Loyola University Chicago School of Law professor Spencer Weber Waller called the decision a "major boost" for ongoing cases against Apple, Amazon, Meta and Alphabet.
在《今日美國》上，洛約拉大學芝加哥法學院教授斯賓塞·韋伯·沃勒將這一決定稱爲正在對蘋果、亞馬遜、Meta和Alphabet進行的案件的“重大推動”。
Others, however, argue that the ruling is unlikely to affect the other pending tech federal antitrust cases. The Google case focuses narrowly on search engines, which is dissimilar to the other lawsuits.
然而，一些人認爲，這一裁決不太可能影響正在進行的其他科技聯邦反壟斷案件。谷歌案件僅僅聚焦於搜索引擎，與其他訴訟非常不同。
Parts of the ruling could actually help antitrust defendants, observers say. Mehta threw out a claim that one of Google's ad tools was designed to give the company an advantage over Bing.
觀察人士表示，裁決的某些部分實際上可能有助於反壟斷被告。梅塔駁回了谷歌廣告工具是爲了在必應上給予公司優勢的指控。
Herbert Hovenkamp, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, noted to Reuters that the portion affirms precedent that companies rarely have a "duty to deal" with rivals. This could help Apple in its case.
賓夕法尼亞大學凱瑞法學院的教授赫伯特·霍文坎普向路透社指出，該部分證實了公司很少有與競爭對手“交易義務”的先例。這可能有助於蘋果贏得案件。
"Any case, including Apple, in which a duty to deal is a major portion, is going to get a close look," Hovenkamp said.
霍文坎普說：“任何一個案件，包括蘋果在內，如果交易義務是主要部分，都將受到密切關注。”
William Kovacic, a professor at George Washington University Law School and former commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, agreed that the "duty to deal" portion of the decision is favorable to defendants
喬治華盛頓大學法學院教授、美國聯邦貿易委員會前委員威廉·科瓦奇（William Kovacic）認爲，判決中的“交易義務”條款對被告有利。