Thursday, 5 July 2012

HTC defeats Apple in UK slide-to-unlock patent battle



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The High Court in London has declared that HTC had not infringed upon Apple's slide-to-unlock patent, because the iPhone's lock screen was an "obvious" evolution from a feature on an eight-year-old phone.


The ruling will mean that Apple cannot ban certain HTC phones in Britain, and it could affect Apple's other legal cases against rival firms like Motorola and Samsung.


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/05/slide-to-unlock-invalid

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