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Apple sued over iPhone web browsing
Los Angeles property developer Elliott Gottfurcht is suing Apple, claiming that technology used by the iPhone to browse the internet infringes on an existing patent.
The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages from Apple, was filed at an east Texas district court on behalf of EMG Technology. The firm, which is managed by Gottfurcht, was set up this month and has no other business outside the patent case, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The alleged infringement refers to a patent concerning the reformatting HTML to XML coding to optimise web content on mobile devices and touch-screen displays. The patent was issued in October and "includes 76 claims, which are supported by specifications filed in 1999 by Gottfurcht and others," EMG claims.
Taking on the case for EMG is lawyer Stanley Gibson, a partner at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Marmaro, who recently won a USD570m patent infringement payout from medical firm Medtronic. The action is the latest patent case to be brought against Apple, which recently settled with Klausner Technologies over claims relating to the iPhone's voicemail features.
EMG is currently not taking legal action against any other handset manufacturer or device, claiming it has only analysed the iPhone so far. The firm has reportedly not offered to license its patent to any firm.
