OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A federal court jury has ruled that Apple did not violate antitrust laws when it restricted music purchases for iPod users to Apple’s iTunes store.

The eight-person jury deliberated for approximately three hours before voting unanimously that the firmware and software updates in iTunes 7.0, which was released in 2006, were genuine product improvements, according to the verdict form filed Dec. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The trial began Dec. 2.