Karimi & Associates Law Firm presents according to Jurist:
Apple reached a settlement to drop a copyright lawsuit it proceeded against a startup based in Flordia, Corellium LLC, for Corellium’s “virtual” version of the iPhone used for research to detect its potential bugs. Corellium allows users to run software-only virtualizations of IOS, which means that researchers can test iPhone software on computers instead of iPhone devices. Some new capabilities such as completely pausing operating systems are provided to security researchers through these virtualizations.
In August 2019, Apple filed a suit against Corellium in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Apple alleged that Corellium is engaged in blatant infringement of Apple’s copyrighted work for commercial purposes. However, in December 2020, a federal judge denied Apple’s request for a permanent injunction and ruled that Corellium had established fair use.
Although the trial for the above-mentioned case was to begin on August 16, Apple and Corellium settled the case on Tuesday. The settlement terms are confidential, but Corellium will reportedly still be selling its virtual IOS devices.
Recently, Apple has been sued for patent infringement. In March, a jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that Apple has to pay $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications (PMC) for infringing upon a digital rights management patent.