I'm not particularly interested in whether they meet the legal test for obviousness, or even whether they were obvious in retrospect. I think that they are simply too trivial to be worthwhile for society to protect.
We have better things to do than tie up our justice system with slide to unlock patents and similar nonsense.
You site a post saying "Everyone agrees that the bar should be higher, though. Nobody knows how to set it higher, unfortunately."
I'm saying that something that can be trivially implemented by someone skilled in the art who is told what the invention does, but not how, should be below the bar.
We have better things to do than tie up our justice system with slide to unlock patents and similar nonsense.
You site a post saying "Everyone agrees that the bar should be higher, though. Nobody knows how to set it higher, unfortunately."
I'm saying that something that can be trivially implemented by someone skilled in the art who is told what the invention does, but not how, should be below the bar.