The Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics says that Apple's 2005 design patent on the iPad isn't valid because Stanley Kubrick's 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," featured the design decades ago, according to a court document.
Samsung's lawyers filed a declaration with a federal district court in Northern California late Monday that included a link to a YouTube clip of the relevant portion of the movie (see below.)
The filing reads:
"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
http://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.
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