Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture (opens in new tab)

(appleinsider.com)

2 pointsdp123414y ago3 comments

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dp1234OP14y 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.

wmf14y ago

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

gerggerg14y ago

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

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dp1234OP14y ago

wmf14y ago

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

gerggerg14y ago

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

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