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May grandmother had "slide to unlock" on her 100-years old toilet room door.


No, she didn't. She had a bolt. The mechanism and implementation is significantly different, unless she had a 100 year old capacitive screen attached to the door in order to operate the bolt.


He isn't saying the bolt is prior art. He is saying that the existence of the bold implies that the concept is obvious.




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