Apple seems to be the favorite target for lawsuits lately, only this time, they are not the ones suing for infringement. The iPhone creator has been sued over infringing a patent technology in the way its iPhone surfs the Internet.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the Tyler Division by EMG Technology, a company based in Los Angeles. The claims revolve around U.S. Patent No. 7,441,196, granted to EMG in October this year.

According to Stanley Gibson, a partner with Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, the law firm that filed the suit on behalf of EMG, “the ‘196 patent claims cover the display of Internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile devices – the industry standard currently displayed by the iPhone.”

Furthermore, the lawsuit also claims infringement on the technology for manipulating a region of the screen for zooming and scrolling, Gibson pointed out. The ‘196 patent also covers the simplified interface for reformatted mobile content to provide optimum viewing and navigation with single touches on a small screen, he further explained. Apple did not make any comments on the pending lawsuit.

But the decision to go after Apple can be considered somewhat weird, considering there are other companies out there using the same technology on their devices. So why Apple? Gibson explained in a Reuters interview that the iPhone was the only device they looked at. “Obviously, it’s very popular,” he said.