Apple wins over Motorola in 'slide-to-unlock' ruling

&#62; Mr Mueller, a patent expert who has in the past consulted for Microsoft, described the ruling as a "very significant win for Apple against Android".<p>How did this guy come to be known as a patent expert? Everything I'm reading in Wikipedia suggests a rather checkered past with regards to reporting on patents.

Hm, I thought the prior art argument was pretty convincing the last time Apple tried this.<p><a href="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-judge-considers-apples-slide-to.html" rel="nofollow">http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-judge-consider...</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-KS2kfIr0&#38;t=4m10s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-KS2kfIr0&#38;t=4m10s</a>

Next they'll go after the zipper manufacturers.

Because slide to unlock wasn't invented hundreds of years ago for doors.

good riddance. all i need is slide keyboard to unlock.<p>...of course that that would require keyboards to be back. Hate apple and the touchscreen fad. I was happy with my crappy nokia, were it not for the speed. or lack of.

The bright side is that Android won't be infected with the user-unfriendly finger-straining slide-to-unlock gimmick.