Apple facing lawsuit over iPhone’s Safari web browser

Apple is involved in yet another lawsuit case, this time with their iPhone’s Safari web browser. There is also a separate lawsuit to do with Apple’s lax policy on employee email retention. EMG Technology, LLC had filed a formal complaint, accusing Apple of patent violation because of the way iPhone navigates the Internet.

It was just a month ago when EMG was granted rights to U.S. patent No. 7,441,196. This is to do with how an apparatus as well as method for manipulating a region on a wireless device zooms, views and scrolls through internet content.

Elliot Gottfurcht, a Los Angeles-based real estate developer is one of those listed as one of the patent’s investors. He is the lone managing member of EMG, and has retained the services of JMBM’s Stanley Gibson; he is one of the lead attorneys who had won $1.35 billion payment for patent infringements.

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