Assignment 7 part 3- obviousness discussion based on Youtube video

Assignment 7 part 3- obviousness discussion based on Youtube video

In this video the author, Jacky, discusses the slide to unlock patent and why she believes that it should not be a valid patent.

Her discussion of this starts by breaking this patent down to two main parts. 1) the continuous unbroken movement across the screen of a touch screen phone 2) to have the the movement go from one predetermined location on the screen to another. She then discusses these two in turn.

The continuous movement across the screen she believes is obvious and is shown in prior art. Because the phone is a touch screen, how else would one unlock it she ask. The fact is that one could potentially press an external button to unlock the screen but either way the continuous movement of across the screen to unlock a phone has been shown in prior art and thus this aspect is at least obvious.

For the second part regarding the predetermined locations, she argues this is obvious. While there is no prior art for this specific part, Jacky believes that anyone in the mobile phone industry developing unlocking software for a touchscreen would think of this at the time of invention. As a result she believes that it is obvious and thus that this patent should not in fact be seen as valid.