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Samsung says iPad Was Kubrick's Idea

submitted by longde

1 decade 2 years 9 months ago

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.

7 Comments

LOL! Pure fucking awesome!

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ponceleon.

This pissing contest is quite amusing, the very latest episode in particular: Dutch court orders formally Europe-wide preliminary injunction against Samsung Galaxy smartphones

Why don't they print out the patent law in question and shove it up their collective arses.

Unfortunately, Apple isn't taking issue with Samsung's development of a tablet as an infringement of its patent, but with specific patents that it believes Samsung has infringed...

If that makes any sense. It's not about the tablet itself.

Apple is also throwing low blows.

http://blog.gsmarena.com/did-apple-submit-false-evidence-to-the-german-court-that-blocked-sales-of-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-in-europe/

All this patent trolling going on is disgusting.

This is almost as good as the Chewbacca Defense.

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