A judge in California federal court has partially granted Apple’s motion to dismiss an antitrust complaint involving its cloud storage service, iCloud, ruling that Apple had not breached state or federal antitrust law, engaged in illegal tying, restricted competition or exercised a monopoly power in the cloud storage service market.
The decision, issued by Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California last Friday, dismissed with leave to amend the plaintiff’s claims alleging violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law, but denied Apple’s statute-of-limitations defense.