Apple seeks U.S. ban on Galaxy Nexus
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 11 February 2012
The motion, Mueller says, is based on four patents: a "data tapping" patent, a patent involving Siri and unified search, a new slide-to-unlock patent, and a word-completion patent for touch-screen entry of text.
The "data tapping" feature, which, for example, lets users tap on a phone number in an e-mail to automatically make a phone call, got Android-handset maker HTC into hot water last year.
Slide-to-unlock is currently at play in an Apple legal action against the Galaxy Nexus in Germany, where a resolution of some sort is expected in March.
If this insane patent system would have existed in the early days, nobody could sell something as simple as a door handle without paying royalties. "Slide-to-unlock"? Seriously now? Not much difference to "push-to-open". Or "this-side-up".