A Swedish court has postponed delivery of its judgement in an $8.3 billion antitrust case brought by Klarna subsidiary PriceRuner against Google.
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Judgement in the case, brought by Nordic price comparison service PriceRunner, has been rescheduled from 15 April to 10 June because “additional time is needed to finalise the judgment,” says Sweden’s Patent and Market Court.
PriceRunner – which was acquired by BNPL giant Klarna in 2021 – says that its claim arises from a 2017 European Commission binding decision that Google abused its dominance in online comparison shopping. The decision was upheld without reservation by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2024.
Seeking around $8.3 billion in damages – the largest civil damages claim ever filed in a Swedish court – PriceRunner alleges that Google “systematically demoted competing price comparison services in its search results while favouring its own Google Shopping product, causing sustained and quantifiable commercial damage to PriceRunner over more than a decade”.
In a statement on today’s delay, Klarna says: “The outcome of the proceedings is inherently uncertain. No assurance can be given that PriceRunner will succeed on liability or quantum.”
Google would also still be able to appeal any award.
