Apple SUED Over Touch Technology !!!

by **J The Kidd** Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:24 am

Apple Inc is the target of a lawsuit that claims a technology the
iPhone uses to surf the Web infringes on a patent filed by Los Angeles
real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht and two co-inventors.

The lawsuit was filed by EMG Technology LLC on Monday in the U.S.
District Court in Tyler, Texas. EMG was founded by Gottfurcht, is based
in Los Angeles with an office in Tyler, and has just one employee.

The suit alleges that the technology the iPhone uses to navigate and
display some websites designed for small phone screens infringes on a
patent obtained last month by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors and
assigned to EMG.

Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren declined to comment on the lawsuit,
saying that the Cupertino, California-based company does not discuss
pending litigation.

EMG has not considered suing companies such as HTC Corp, maker of the
G1 Google phone, and Research in Motion Ltd, maker of the BlackBerry,
which also produce devices that can display mobile websites, according
to Gottfurcht's lawyer Stanley Gibson, a partner with the Los Angeles
law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro.

Mobile websites are essentially reformatted versions of ordinary
websites, with their content manipulated to be easily viewed on tiny
screens.

"We haven't looked at anything other than the iPhone," Gibson told
Reuters. "That was the device that we looked at. Obviously it's very
popular."

Gibson was one of several attorneys who prosecuted a recent patent
infringement case against Medtronic Inc that resulted in a $570 million
verdict for his clients, according to a statement issued by his law
firm.

by Ko0L Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:29 am

whats next nintendo sues playstation and microsoft for making videogames?

Apple SUED Over Touch Technology !!!

Apple SUED Over Touch Technology !!!

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