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Apple Sued Over iPhone's Safari
Kunal Gangar, Nov 25, 2008 1639 hrs ISTiPhone's Safari infringes inventor Gottgurcht's patent
Looks like a lot of companies want a chunk of the meaty iPhone pie from Apple. After wading through a number of lawsuits, Apple is now embroiled in another one, this time with a Los Angeles-based real estate developer and inventor, Elliot Gottfurcht, and his two co-inventors.
The suit is filed by the Gottgurcht-owned EMG Technology, which claims that the iPhone's Safari browser has infringed on one of their patents granted by USPTO a month back. EMG alleges that the way Safari displays, zooms, and scrolls internet content is similar to their patent, which describes an "apparatus and method for manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming, and scrolling internet content."
The same browsing technique, which correctly displays content on a tiny screen, has been used by many other phone vendors, but EMG's lawyer, Stanley Gibson, says that they haven't looked at other devices and, hence, cannot sue other companies.
The case has been filed in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas.
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The suit is filed by the Gottgurcht-owned EMG Technology, which claims that the iPhone's Safari browser has infringed on one of their patents granted by USPTO a month back. EMG alleges that the way Safari displays, zooms, and scrolls internet content is similar to their patent, which describes an "apparatus and method for manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming, and scrolling internet content."
The same browsing technique, which correctly displays content on a tiny screen, has been used by many other phone vendors, but EMG's lawyer, Stanley Gibson, says that they haven't looked at other devices and, hence, cannot sue other companies.
The case has been filed in the U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas.
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