Does every Android device now infringe this Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” Patent? “Or, for that matter, every Windows 8 device? Well, yes, they probably do,” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports for ZDNet.
“But does that mean that Apple is really going to be using this patent to sue everyone and anyone who uses the slide metaphor in their design? I asked some prominent intellectual property (IP) lawyers about it and this is what they said, ” Vaughan-Nichols reports. “The consensus seems to be that this particular patent won’t be seen used in anger inside a courtroom any time soon.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Asking uninvolved paries about what Apple’s going to do is a sure recipe for getting iCal’ed.
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