Apple hit with iPhone patent lawsuit
Published: 25 Nov 2008 12:04 GMT
Apple has been hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit by an inventor who claims to have patented iPhone-like mobile web surfing.
EMG Technology, which appears to be a holding company for the interests of inventor Elliot Gottfurcht, filed suit against Apple on Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
EMG was awarded US Patent number 7,441,196 in October, after filing its patent application in March 2006, and seems to believe Apple's iPhone has run foul of the claims in the patent.
The patent covers the ability of a website to reformat itself to the size of the screen trying to access that site.
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"The '196 patent claims cover the display of internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile devices — the industry standard currently displayed by the iPhone," EMG adviser Stanley Gibson said in a press release announcing the lawsuit.
It is unclear why EMG is pursuing Apple, given that many companies have similar technology in the market, although EMG said the patent also covers "the technology for manipulating a region of the screen for zooming and scrolling".
An Apple representative said the company does not comment on pending litigation.
Credit: Inventor files patent suit over iPhone Web browsing from CNET News.com
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