EMG Technologies, a holding company that manages patents held by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht, has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming the company’s iPhone violates a patent covering converting HTML-based Web pages into a simplified mobile-friendly XML format. In a statement, EMG claims the iPhone uses the same technique described in their patent 7,441,196, which they applied for in March 2006 but was only granted last month. The lawsuit is being spearheaded by Stanley Gibson of the law firm Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, who specializes in intellectual property law and recently won a $1.35 billion payment in a case against Medtronic. The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, which has generally been sympathetic to patent-holders.
