Qualcomm lost its bid to get a European Union antitrust penalty thrown out after a top court largely rebuffed the technology company’s arguments in the case involving cellphone chipsets.

Between 2017 and 2019, Google faced multiple fines from Europe's regulatory body, accumulating to $9.1 billion due to several antitrust claims. The penalty concerning AdSense pertained to Google's practices between 2006 and 2016, which the Commission claimed limited rival ads on publisher websites, inhibiting market competition.

The European Union’s second highest court today ruled on two antitrust fines that the bloc issued to Google LLC and Qualcomm Inc. in 2019. The General Court annulled the penalty imposed on Google, which was the largest of the two at €1.49 billion. It mostly upheld Qualcomm’s €242 million fine, reducing it by about 1%.