Comment Palm Gridlock prior art (Score 1) 622
It seems this patent, in it's generalities, lends itself to prior art. In addition to the Neonode N1 phone in 2002, there was a Palm app in 2001 by company PDABusiness called Gridlock. The app used finger "gestures" on the Palm "touch-sensitive display" to match a "predefined" pattern in a 5x5 grid. This patent describes it may include an "unlock" image. This was an arrow on the first iPhone? Perhaps implementing a padlock icon was also too narrow for Apple?
Time will tell, but if nothing else, this ruling definitely opened the doors for some lawyers to profit.