Apple loses its lawsuit against iPhone virtualization company CorelliumApple loses its lawsuit against Corellium.
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Apple has lost its lawsuit against security research firm Corellium.
The software that virtualizes iPhones will continue to be allowed.
Reported by The Washington Post, Apple has lost its legal battle with Corellium, the security research firm that created virtual iPhones that Apple had filed a copyright claim against.
The judge in the case ruled that Corellium's creation of virtual iPhones was not a copyright violation, in part because it was designed to help improve the security for all iPhone users. Corellium wasn't creating a competing product for consumers. Rather, it was a research tool for a comparatively small number of customers.
Apple had claimed that flaws discovered by Correllium could fall into hackers' hands because the company sold its product "indiscriminately," but Judge Rodney Smith called those claims "Puzzling, if not disingenuous."
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Apple loses its lawsuit against iPhone virtualization company Corellium
