APPLE TRIAL RULING

Judge Denise Cote handed down her 160 page ruling today in the US v Apple trial.
The ruling against Apple will be most certainly be appealed.

She is seated here during the Apple trial.

Story by Philip Elmer Dewitt
Link
CNN Fortune story by Philip Elmer Dewitt

Judge Denise Cote by Elizabeth Williams

APPLE eBOOK Anti-Trust Trial: Summations to Judge Cote

Today the lawyers gave their summations in the US v Apple eBook anti-trust trial.

First Orin Snyder, who is the lead attorney for Apple,  gave his summation  to Judge Cote.

At the end of his presentation, an Apple iPad animation appeared on the screen with the final words from 

his summation, in the form of an eBook. The pages turned as he spoke his final words

showing off the page curl feature of the eBook. The judge took note, as did everyone else:-)

Story by Fortune reporter Philip Elmer-Dewitt

Fortune CNN Money story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt

Also Publishers Weekly just published an eBook in the eBook trial and how the major publishers and Apple managed to change how eBook pricing was set for a period of time.
The Battle of the $9.99 eBook

Apple Atty Orin Snyder giving his summation to Judge Denise Cote

Mark Ryan giving closing statement to Judge Denise Cote

Then after Apple's atty gave his summation, the DOJ atty Mark Ryan spoke. Judge Cote was very attentive to both arguments and asked questions of both attorneys.

APPLE eBOOK Anti-Trust Trial: Eddy Cue and Judge Cote, final questions

Monday afternoon, at the US v Apple anti trust trial, the questioning of Eddy Cue was completed by Judge Cote. She was particularly curious about the 5 draft emails written by Steve Jobs, but never sent to Mr Cue. 

Mr Cue did his best to answer the judges questions. Then once he was off the stand the government rested their case.

Here is the complete story  by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
US v Apple story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt of Fortune magazine

Judge Denise Cote questions senior VP of Apple Eddy Cue about 5 draft emails written by Steve Jobs

After the all the evidence was presented and both sides rested, the judge gave an indication that her position
may be shifting.
Publishers Weekly story by Andrew Albanese
Publishers Weekly Apple trial story

APPLE eBOOK Anti-Trust Trial Eddy Cue, continued

Today was the second and last day of Eddy Cue's testimony at the Apple trial in Manhattan federal court.
After the lawyers were done questioning Mr Cue then Judge Denise Cote got her chance. He finally finished around 4:30 pm. At that point the government rested their case. Closing statements are on Thursday.
Here is a link to today's story by Philip Elmer-Dewitt of Fortune Magazine.
Fortune CNN Money story by Elmer-Dewitt
Publishers Weekly story by Calvin Reid
Publishers Weekly story

Eddy Cue, Apple VP on stand w Judge Denise Cote,
Manhattan Federal Court

Artwork was drawn for Bloomberg TV.

APPLE eBOOK Anti-Trust Trial Eddy Cue, Cross and Redirect

Wide Shot Eddy Cue, VP of Apple on the stand 

DOJ Attorney Lawrence Buterman cross examining Mr Cue  

Today at the Apple trial VP Eddy Cue( the architect of the Apple eBooks) took the stand.
Here is the latest trial story link
Bloomberg Eddy Cue story

Also few other interesting details emerged like

• Apple thought that half of Amazon's E book count,( 200K books) were self published, I thought that was amazing showing the power of self publishing today.
• A student, Sethh Humphrey emailed Apple/Steve Jobs chiding him for the increase in prices of eBooks and Jobs actually replied, another detail I thought pretty amazing.
• Eddy Cue when asked (in a lighter moment)  if he had a picture of a board meeting, he replied "no pictures of  board meetings, just like the courtroom". The court reporter who was facing me looked up and smiled, I smiled back. Yes, there are pictures in federal court, just not photos:) yet.

Apple attorney Orin Snyder from Gibson Dunn, questioning Mr Cue,
lawyers are seated in the jury box,
because this is a bench trial