Smartphone Patents: Never-Ending War – The Wall Street Journal.
April 13, 2012 Leave a comment
I thought you would be interested in the following story on WSJ.com.
Smartphone Patents: Never-Ending War
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303624004577339931560320116.html
Customers shopping for Apple Inc.’s AAPL +1.16%iPhone might pay little attention to the gadget’s “slide to unlock” feature, but you would never know that from a quick glance at Apple’s current roster of patent lawsuits.
The technology giant has secured two key U.S. patents on slide-to-unlock—a technology that lets users wake a dormant phone with a finger-swipe across the screen. And it is wielding those patents like swords against rivals around the world.
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