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Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Suit Filed in Tyler Alleges Apple Inc. Infringed on Web Navigation Patent
By CASEY KNAUPP
Staff Writer
A California technology company filed a lawsuit in Tyler federal court Monday, claiming Apple Inc. infringed on its patent with the popular iPhone.
Staff Writer
A California technology company filed a lawsuit in Tyler federal court Monday, claiming Apple Inc. infringed on its patent with the popular iPhone.
EMG Technology, LLC filed the patent infringement accusing Apple, also a California company, of infringing a patent in the way the iPhone navigates the Internet, attorneys for EMG announced Monday.
According to the lawsuit, the patent for the “apparatus and method of manipulating a region on a wireless device screen for viewing, zooming and scrolling Internet content” was issued on Oct. 21 to three inventors, who signed all the rights to the patent over to EMG on Nov. 19.
The lawsuit claims that Apple is infringing the patent in East Texas, where it sells its iPhones, which are capable of browsing the Internet using a small screen.
“Apple threatens to continue to engage in the acts … and, unless restrained and enjoined, will continue to do so, all to EMG’s irreparable injury,” the lawsuit states.
EMG Managing Member Elliott Gottfurcht is one of the inventors of five U.S. patents for navigating the Internet on mobile devices and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The patent issued on Oct. 21 “includes 76 claims, which are supported by specifications filed in 1999 by Mr. Gottfurcht and others,” according to a prepared statement by the California law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, which is representing EMG.
Court documents show local counsel for EMG are Tyler attorneys Charles Ainsworth and Robert Christopher Bunt.
Monday’s filing is at least the second lawsuit filed in Tyler against Apple for patent infringement regarding the iPhone.
In August 2007, SP Technologies, LLC. filed a claim, alleging that it had been issued a patent in 2004, for a “method and medium for computer readable keyboard display incapable of user termination.”
Apple has infringed by not only selling the cellular phones, but also by “… actively inducing users of the iPhone … to practice the method of entering data on a touch screen,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit claims that Apple is infringing the patent in East Texas, where it sells its iPhones, which are capable of browsing the Internet using a small screen.
“Apple threatens to continue to engage in the acts … and, unless restrained and enjoined, will continue to do so, all to EMG’s irreparable injury,” the lawsuit states.
EMG Managing Member Elliott Gottfurcht is one of the inventors of five U.S. patents for navigating the Internet on mobile devices and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The patent issued on Oct. 21 “includes 76 claims, which are supported by specifications filed in 1999 by Mr. Gottfurcht and others,” according to a prepared statement by the California law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, which is representing EMG.
Court documents show local counsel for EMG are Tyler attorneys Charles Ainsworth and Robert Christopher Bunt.
Monday’s filing is at least the second lawsuit filed in Tyler against Apple for patent infringement regarding the iPhone.
In August 2007, SP Technologies, LLC. filed a claim, alleging that it had been issued a patent in 2004, for a “method and medium for computer readable keyboard display incapable of user termination.”
Apple has infringed by not only selling the cellular phones, but also by “… actively inducing users of the iPhone … to practice the method of entering data on a touch screen,” the lawsuit states.
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