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Originally Posted by doogald
If you read the actual patent, it describes a fairly specific procedure for unlocking a device using a touch gesture, specifically describing moving a graphical image along a predefined path, with or without visual cues.
It's easy to say that this is obvious, but you can say that about just about any other patented invention, after it is invented. Things seem obvious with 20/20 hindsight.
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Unlocking a touchscreen for use... is obvious. Otherwise... we would be pocket dialing, gaming, etc...
This is obvious because of the problems with non-touchscreen phones.
Doing anything with a touchscreen requires a gesture... it's how we've done things with touchscreens since they've been around.
Dragging an icon... is neither innovative, or unique.
The only thing that could be considered non-obvious is... moving along a predefined path.
And no offense... this one is fairly obvious.
So, yep... these are all pretty obvious.
This patent should NEVER have been issued.