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Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock

Posted by Soulskill on from the slide-to-unlock-a-can-of-worms dept.

generalhavok writes "The United States Patent & Trademark Office has approved Apple's patent on the slide to unlock gesture used on iOS devices. Interestingly, this patent was earlier dismissed in Europe due to prior art. With many Android phones using a similar slide gesture, it will be interesting to see how this new patent will affect the patent wars between Apple and Android vendors."

2 of 622 comments (clear)

  1. Re:New Apple patent by kaiidth · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's because they employ a lot of very smart, creative patent trolls.

  2. Re:Oh ffs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, which is wronger?

    Your grammar, apparently.