T440s Control key getting stuck

I have a T440s touch screen version running windows 8.1 64bit Pro and using the latest 2.26 firmware.
Most of the time I use the laptop on an Ultradock with no issue.
However on the odd occasion when I use the laptop standalone I use the trackpoint (not sure if this relevant) and have found the computer is acting as if control is being presed. I am certain I have not used the Shift or control key and sticky keys is not on. When this problem occurs no amount of pressing control or shift resolves the problem and the only way to recover is to reboot the computer.
Anyone seem this issue or know how to solve it.

OK
So I've been doing a little more research and the only thing I can find is on some old ASUS and Toshiba forums with people reporting similar issues.
The most promising solution seems to be to disable 'Pinch to Zoom' on the trackpad driver. I'll give that a go and see how things progress.
As a side note I've only had the laptop a couple of months and I am pretty sure I didn't have the issue when I bought it, although it has since been upgraded to Win 8.1 from 8.0 and all firmware/driver patches applied (firmware 2.25 mentions some shift/control key fixes...Hmmmm...).

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Go into device manager and uninstall the keyboard and restart the computer.
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If everything was recently working correctly, you might try a system restore.
This will take the computer back to a time that everything was working correctly without affecting any of your files.
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