The Apple slide-to-unlock patent was held invalid by the High Court in London yesterday aloing with two other patents.
HTC was asking the court to invlidate four Apple patents of which this was one.
The other two patents also invalidated were a patent for a multilingual keyboard and a patent for a system which decided which parts of a screen needed single finger touch,which multi-finger touch,and which were not sensitive to finger touch.
The judge refused to rule on the validity of a fourth patent,covering the Apple feature which allows you to drag an image to the edge of the screen which then bounces back to its original position,on the grounds that it was irrelevant in this particular case.
Source:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/07/05/54052/htc-invalidates-three-apple-patents.htm
