Law360: A patent licensing company suing Google over patents covering image quality data failed to convince Federal Circuit judges on 30 April 2025 that those claims do more than 'organize, alter, or manipulate data'.

MLex: Google is taking the European Commission to court over how users are counted for its Google Shopping service under the EU’s Digital Services Act (EU DSA), in a move that could clarify a key methodology under the EU’s digital law. The case centers on how ‘active users’ are calculated, a key threshold for stricter obligations, and adds to a growing number of legal challenges to the Commission’s approach.

MLex: A UK class action has been filed targeting Google for more than £15bn over allegations that the US tech giant abused its dominant position in the search-advertising market. An application was filed this week at the Competition Appeal Tribunal for collective proceedings on behalf of advertisers, according to a website created for the claim, spearheaded by Roger Kaye, a retired deputy High Court judge. The potential claim was first reported in late 2024.

Law360: Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow have lodged a copyright infringement claim alleging Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini following an earlier claim they launched against Meta.

Law360, London: On 18 September 2024, the General Court of the European Union annulled a €1.49bn fine against Google for abusing its dominance in markets for brokering online search advertising, saying the EU's competition enforcer had not adequately weighed how long the contracts had been in place.

Law360: A group of visual artists has filed a proposed class action claiming Google's text-to-image artificial intelligence tool Imagen is trained by copying 'enormous amounts' of artists' copyrighted works without authorisation, the latest claim challenging the use of vast datasets for AI training.

MLex: Tech companies face an increased risk of antitrust enforcement when denying access to open platforms, following a ruling against Google today by the EU’s top court. It will be a boost for competition watchdogs struggling to take on dominant companies, and it will restrict a legal defense often trotted out by infrastructure owners. But the impact could go beyond the usual digital giants, and some fear negative incentives for open platforms.

MLex: Google is letting users decide whether they want their data to be shared between services such as YouTube, Search and Google Shopping, in a move to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The company said users can opt out of sharing data, which may mean that some services, such as recommendations in a YouTube feed, will be ‘less personalised’.

Law360: A plan to fundamentally change the international tax system won't diminish Google's outlays in Ireland, chief executive Sundar Pichai told the Irish state broadcaster on 28 April 2022 responding to concerns that the new regime would inhibit investment in the country.

Law360, London: The UK antitrust court gave an academic the go-ahead 6 March 2025 to bring a £1bn class action against Google on behalf of software developers over allegedly anticompetitive app store practices, clearing his litigation funding arrangement with amendments.

MLex: Google faces a fresh EU copyright test over Gemini as the EU's top court is asked whether AI training, prompts, retrieval of current web content and generated summaries can infringe press publishers' rights. Hungarian judges are asking the court to clarify when the EU text-and-data-mining exception can shield those uses.

MLex: Google may not be able to rely on the hosting liability exemption under the EU's E-Commerce Directive after reviewing a YouTube creator's channel before entering into a commercial partnership, the Court of Justice ruled on 16 July 2026. The judgment could have huge implications on how national courts in the 27 EU Member States assess platform liability for monetised user-generated content.