Samsung Cites 'A Space Odyssey' as Evidence Against iPad Design

Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' movie as a 'prior art' argument against iPad design patent, reports FOSS Patents.

Here's what Samsung is claiming straight an exhibit filed by Samsung with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D'889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table's surface), and a thin form factor.


Take a look at the exhibit below...

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