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

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Posted August 23, 2011 at 6:47pm by iClarified

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

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Kevin Spacey - August 24, 2011 at 9:22am

I think their table looks like a giant iPad stung by the melding plague.

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Guido - August 24, 2011 at 9:13am

Ridicoli!

Tony - August 23, 2011 at 8:37pm

Off topic, but I have been watching Star Trek the next generation on Netflix and just imagine the entire Bridge being like the iPad. Come on Apple, get a US Navy contract. Lol

Es - August 23, 2011 at 7:55pm

Star Trek PADD would be a better example.

Tony - August 23, 2011 at 7:11pm

Yah, but apple didn't rip off anyone else's existing device.

d - August 23, 2011 at 7:43pm

I give HP iPaq

namedb - August 23, 2011 at 10:15pm

i give d "iFuq"