Patent Approved: Apple Now Owns "Slide to Unlock"

[mj4358]

Excuse me..... 1 yr from the first iPhone release

 

[ericburnby]

[citation][nom]thrasher32[/nom]While you're down there fellating Apple, will you see if you can find my contact lens?[/citation]
Did you lose it the last time you were down there doing the fellating?

 

[mj4358]

Excuse me......1 yr before the iPhone was released.

 

[kartu]

US citizens, there is a petition on gov site to stop this kind of crap (software patents).

 

[mr_tuel]

I think I'll patent the the process of patenting stupid shit.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]You can always tell a great patent if it meets three criteria:- It must be simple. You don't need a contraption with a million parts and a thousand page description to explain what it does. A better hammer or nail with a half page description is enough.- It should be a better way of doing something. Hammers and nails have been around forever, but if your hammer & nail are improvements on the existing versions than you've got a great invention.- When people see the idea they should respond with "well that's obvious" or "why didn't I think of that". Hindsight is 20:20, people can always say an idea is obvious, but until someone does it, it's not obvious.Apple made a better hammer/nail. That makes this a brilliant patent. Too bad haters are too blind to see this fits the description of a great idea to a "T".[/citation]
To bad that you are blind to the fact that slide to unlock already existed prior to the iPhone.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]Praxis_67[/nom]So much Apple hatred... as if other companies weren't doing the same thing. And claiming that Apple is holding back innovation is hypothosis contrary to fact. There was no market for smartphones until Apple created it. There was no market for tablets until Apple created it. If you love your Droid device, you have Apple to thank for proving that mobile devices could be profitable. Still, this is as ridiculous as patenting the "turn to open" function of a doorknob.[/citation]
Yep Nokia, Sony-Ericsson were near bankruptcy before Apple showed up.

 

[Guest]

Don't get too worked up about this one folks. If you take the time to read the source documents (rather than this poor inaccurate rehash) and understand anything about patents and the patent process, you will realize that
A. Apple had filed for a patent on this 2 YEARS BEFORE the iPhone was released,
B. they essentially had another patent on this granted in February OF LAST YEAR,
and C. Prior art examples (like the Neonode) will make this patent difficult to use offensively by Apple.

 

[ericburnby]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]To bad that you are blind to the fact that slide to unlock already existed prior to the iPhone.[/citation]
And hammers and nails have also existed forever. Apple didn't patent slide to unlock, they patented a specific way to do it, which should be easy for companies to work around.

Go watch a YouTube video of the Neonode n1m and compare it to the iPhone - they are significantly different.

 

[_Pez_]

Wow is Apple a Mexican Company, I mean the companies over here in México like to screw with everyone, screw other small or big companies and finally they screw us the ppl, with higher costs. Is a shame that American courts patent that kind of thoughtless, brainless ideas.- And if it is that simple, I will go to USA in order to patent when ppl make shit, so everyone will have to pay me a rent every 12 hours. LOL hahaha

 

[cyberkuberiah]

scary !

 

[ben850]

I do not blame Apple for taking advantage of the patent system. What I do blame is the people responsible for letting these things happen.

 

[ram1009]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]Apple always has features first on all Apple devices produced by any Apple manufacturer anywhere in the Apple world.[/citation]
Dream on itard.

 

[Guest]

@ericburnby

"The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device. The performance of the predefined gesture with respect to the unlock image may include moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path."

actually reading from the above that is not a specific slide gesture, that is any slide gesture that is communicated to the user via the display

 

[STravis]

[citation][lamorpa]Apple always has features first on all Apple devices produced by any Apple manufacturer anywhere in the Apple world.[/lamorpa]

[nom]ram1009[/nom]Dream on itard.[/citation]

LOL - ram1009 you are such a tard that you failed to grasp what lamorpa was saying. No wonder dumbasses like you gravitate to crap OS'es like Android.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]straylite[/nom]Don't get too worked up about this one folks. If you take the time to read the source documents (rather than this poor inaccurate rehash) and understand anything about patents and the patent process, you will realize that A. Apple had filed for a patent on this 2 YEARS BEFORE the iPhone was released, B. they essentially had another patent on this granted in February OF LAST YEAR, and C. Prior art examples (like the Neonode) will make this patent difficult to use offensively by Apple.[/citation]


But, but, but...isn't it easier to just bash on Apple for trying to protect their work???

 

[Sherksilver]

Unfortunately lately it seems that everyone has gone patent crazy, including the patent office. I mean, seriously - patenting a gesture?
What is next, patenting getting out of bed on the left side in the morning?

I think that the current wave of patents are just really violating the original reason for a patent office in the first place.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Yep Nokia, Sony-Ericsson were near bankruptcy before Apple showed up.[/citation]

Yep, Nokia & Sony_Ericsson are clearly responsible for starting the smartphone and app-store phenomenon.

 

[ikyung]

Well, at least the patent office put the word "predefined" before gesture. That creates pretty much an infinite amount of loopholes for other phone makers.

 

[watcha]

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Yep Nokia, Sony-Ericsson were near bankruptcy before Apple showed up.[/citation]

Yep, Nokia & Sony-Ericsson are clearly responsible for starting the tablet phenomenon.