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Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture

appleinsider.com

2 points by dp1234 14 years ago · 3 comments

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dp1234OP 14 years ago

How is something that seems so obvious and trivial patentable? In the physical world this seems like patenting doorknobs that rotate to the left versus the ones that rotate to the right that everyone was already using.

  • wmf 14 years ago

    If it was obvious, other phones must have already implemented it before the iPhone came out, right?

gerggerg 14 years ago

prior art? http://goo.gl/Wvv6l

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