Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture

Apple awarded patent for touchscreen slide-to-unlock gesture(appleinsider.com)

2 points by dp1234 14 years ago | 3 comments

dp1234 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