ECJ ruling reshapes exclusionary-abuse analysis after Google Android
A single Perkins Coie alert on the 2 July 2026 ECJ Google Android judgment surveys where exclusionary-abuse doctrine now stands; the available text does not describe the holding.
On 2 July 2026 the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its judgment in Google Android, the long-awaited ruling on exclusionary abuses in the mobile operating-systems market. A Perkins Coie alert published in October 2026 walks through where exclusionary-abuse law now stands as a result, but the source material available here does not set out the holding, the applicable Article 102 test, or any remedy ordered, and those details should not be inferred from this summary.
The decision matters well beyond the parties. EU dominance cases have been the reference point for competition authorities and private claimants across member states for two decades, and counsel advising platform, distribution, or technology clients routinely calibrate enforcement exposure and litigation strategy to how the Court frames the line between loyalty rebates, tying, self-preferencing, and conduct on non-essential or emerging venues. Sophisticated readers should treat the alert as a map of questions now in play rather than a statement of answers.
The concrete next step is to obtain and read the judgment itself, identify the test and the evidence the Court required, then assess how it maps onto pending national proceedings and onto non-EU regimes that reference EU case law. Any operative paragraphs on remedies, interim measures, and damages should be checked before reliance. Nothing here is advice on the merits.