Fortnite creator Epic Games on Friday opposed Apple’s efforts to placed on maintain orders handed down in an antitrust trial as a doubtlessly prolonged appeals course of performs out.

US district Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in September struck down among the iPhone maker’s App Store guidelines, together with a prohibition on builders directing their customers to different cost choices beside Apple’s in-app cost system, in a partial win for Epic and different app makers.

Apple has till December 9 to adjust to the injunction, however earlier this month the corporate stated it’ll attraction the ruling and requested Gonzalez Rogers to place her order on maintain because the appeals course of, which may take greater than a 12 months, unfolds.

Epic on Friday argued in a court docket submitting that Apple has not met the authorized normal for that pause, which requires Apple present that it is going to be irreparably harmed by even briefly complying with the order if the injunction is later reversed on attraction.

Epic stated that Apple’s optimistic feedback concerning the ruling shortly after it landed, and its delay in asking for a pause, confirmed that it could not be harmed by enacting the orders.

“The public interest favours denying (Apple’s request); an injunction is the only path to effective relief,” Epic wrote. “History shows … that in the absence of an injunction, Apple will not make any changes.”

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

A listening to on Apple’s request is ready for November 9.

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