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Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture (appleinsider.com)
2 points by dp1234 5355 days ago
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dp1234 5355 days 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.
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wmf 5355 days ago
If it was obvious, other phones must have already implemented it before the iPhone came out, right?
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gerggerg 5355 days ago
prior art? http://goo.gl/Wvv6l
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