OAKLAND, California: In a filing to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland on Friday, tech giant Apple said it did not violate a court order governing its App Store.

It also called on the California federal judge to reject a request to hold it in contempt by “Fortnite” developer Epic Games.

Epic’s lawsuit, made in 2020, accused Apple of violating antitrust law by controlling how consumers download apps and pay for related transactions.

Apple’s filing also criticized Epic’s attempt to make its “tools and technologies available to developers for free.”

Epic wanted the court “to micromanage Apple’s business operations in a way that would increase Epic’s profitability,” the iPhone maker added.

While Epic mainly lost its case against Apple, in 2021, Rogers ordered the Cupertino, California-based company to allow developers to guide app users to alternative payment methods for digital transactions.

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Apple’s appeal of the injunction order.

In a court filing last month, Epic said that Apple was in “blatant violation” of the court’s injunction by imposing a 27 percent fee on developers for some purchases. The video game maker said this fee makes links for alternative payment options “commercially unusable.”

Apple has also stopped some apps from informing users about other ways to pay for goods, Epic added.

Epic also brought a similar case against Alphabet’s Google, and a judge in San Francisco is expected to issue a separate injunction affecting the Google Play Store this year.