Apple Looking Strong In The Frivolous iPhone Browser Lawsuit

• EMG Technology, a Los Angeles based company, filed a patent lawsuit against Apple last week over “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet”. The lawsuit seemed frivolous at first and now there is more information coming out to support that it may indeed just be.
• Why is the lawsuit shady? Well, EMG Technology formed very recently and it seems to be solely on the purpose of filing this lawsuit. The patent was just issued to them last month by a court in the Eastern District of Texas and the company doesn’t do anything besides own this patent.
• Another fact that smells fishy is that one of the inventors named on the patent and who is one of the founding memebrs of EMG is Elliot Gottfurcht, a LA based real estate developer. Don’t you mean web developer? Hmmm.
• This would certainly be the first real estate developer to be added to the list of potential owners to the Apple technology. Others include IBM, Sony, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
• Lastly, the patent itself does not seem like it stands a chance in court, considering it is not specific to mobile browsers. Moreover, there are many way in which to develop a way to manipulate the way content is viewed, and the patent does not include enough specifics as to how exactly Apple copied what they patented.
• The claim says that the EMG patent describes the ability to manipulate, zoom, scroll, and view Web content on devices other than a laptop. The central concept revolves around a way to convert HTML Web pages into XML data that can then be displayed partially on different devices, including mobile phones. This is not something proprietary and is a joke that it was able to make it through the patent process. Nonetheless, just because the court made a mistake issuing it and EMG got lucky, doesn’t mean they will see a dime from it.
• Take a hike Gottfurcht

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