Thread: Apple Patented "Slide to Unlock" - Question for older NIT owners
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2011-10-26 , 11:09
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Barely (Apple's patent application is from December 2005), but the 770 didn't have slide-to-unlock anyway. IIRC we didn't have any kind of slide/swipe UI elements until Canola.
Barely is all that matters in the patent world. And let's not forget the nokia 7710 which was Hildon-like in some respects and released in 2004.

But most of Apple's relevant touch screen patents were filed after 2005 anyway. The big takeaway is that Maemo 4 doesn't have the patent problems of Android.
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