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Slide to Unlock Patent declared Trivial, Nullified by german High Court

Accepted submission by FlyingSock at 2015-08-26 14:22:10
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The German high court has upheld an earlier ruling, that Apple's Slide to Unlock Patent (EU Patent 1964022) [espacenet.com] is a trivial extension of the state of the art embodied by the Swedish Neonode N1 (with Windows CE) and is therefore invalid.

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Reuters [reuters.com]
Heise (German) [heise.de]


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