Friday, November 4, 2011

‘Patents War’– Apple gets one more victory

The ‘worldwide war’ continues…

Ok, this is just getting ridiculous…
The USA patents regulator has accepted the registration of the patent 8,046,721 from Apple which stands for the ‘unlock gesture’.

This patent text description it’s ambiguous enough to get some of the other major smartphone and tablets manufacturer scared.

”A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising: detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image; continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display.”

So…reading the text I just fill like every actual system today that doesn’t use pins or passwords to unlock are just at risk of getting some court letter to explain themselves.
I truly believe that this patents war it’s going really to far and in my point of view, it’s not Apples, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, etc. fault.

The true guilty are the ones that accept this kind of patent registration…

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