Apple can still seek relief on separate cases involving unauthorized use and distribution of hacking tools
on December 30, 2020, 16:51
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In context: Corellium's co-founders were early pioneers in the jailbreaking scene. At a Black Hat conference last year, Corellium reps praised the software's ability to offer iOS replicas to anyone, including "foreign governments and commercial enterprises." Apple filed suit in August 2019, asking for the destruction of all infringing code and cash compensation.
On Tuesday, a US District Court in Fort Lauderdale shot down Apple's copyright claim against security software startup Corellium. The Cupertino tech giant took on the smaller company last year, filing a lawsuit alleging that it violated copyright law in creating an iOS virtualization system used to find security bugs in Apple's mobile operating system.