Microsoft Scores in the FTC Challenge to gain the snowstorm of the company

On Wednesday, the Federal Appeal Court rejected a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Committee for Microsoft worth $ 69 billion for the “Call of Duty” Activision Blizzard.

The San Francisco -based Appeal Court, based in San Francisco, upheld a matter of the judge who said FTC was not entitled to obtain a preliminary judicial order prohibiting the deal, which was closed in 2023.

A committee of three judges unanimously ruled that the lower judge had applied the correct legal standards and said that FTC has not proven that it would have succeeded in its allegations that the merger would restrict the competition.

FTC spokesman rejected the comment. Microsoft He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The decision came in a lawsuit against the monopoly filed by the Federal Trade Committee in 2022 against Microsoft Microsoft.

FTC, which imposes the anti -monopoly law, challenged separately the integration into an internal administrative procedure. This procedure was placed in 2023 during the administration of President Joe Biden, pending the decision of the ninth district.

Activision Blizzard is the largest acquisition ever in the video game market. The deal Closed in late 2023 After the approval of the competition authorities in the United Kingdom. The purchase also faced organizational audit in other international markets.

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A lawsuit against FTC requested an order to freeze ACTIVISION, while the agency pursued its administrative challenge.

The agency has claimed that the Microsoft-Activise link will allow the integrated company to submit off the competitors to Xbox Control Unit And to his subscription and cloud -based games.

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American boycott judge, Jacqueline Scott Corley, refused to prevent the acquisition in July 2023, and found that FTC did not show Microsoft’s ownership of Activision “would significantly reduce competition in the subscription of the video game library and cloud games markets.”

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FTC argue In her call The court applied a very strict standard in weight whether a preliminary court order will be granted.