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Maybe it wasn't so "trivial" when they patented it.

• jlgreco 14y ago
  No, no it was. Its right up there with someone trying to patent the ESC key.
• honzzz 14y ago
  May grandmother had "slide to unlock" on her 100-years old toilet room door.
  • sbuk 14y ago
    No, she didn't. She had a bolt. The mechanism and implementation is significantly different, unless she had a 100 year old capacitive screen attached to the door in order to operate the bolt.
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      He isn't saying the bolt is prior art. He is saying that the existence of the bold implies that the concept is obvious.