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Slide-to-Unlock: A Patent Worth Fighting Over?
12/20/2011 edit
By PJLouis
Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Android, smartphone, cellular, AT&T, HTC, Verizon, Sprint

http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=6c178915-af3b-4c20-8102-3dec14ae06e6

 

In a word: YES.

This has to be one of the cleverest patents I have seen in a long time.

In my personal opinion it is a take on the classic mechanical slide-to-unlock mechanism you see on everything from boxes to laptop computers.  A clever take on that mechanical feature.

This is going to be one heck of a fight.

This patent is definitely worth fighting over.

By the way if the feature is conceptually similar to a mechnical lock slide is it still patentable?