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If Samsung has its way then the credit for inventing the iPad would go to Stanley Kubrick, the maker of the famous Hollywood film 2001: A Space Odyssey. As the film did show the actors using a tablet like device, Samsung feels that it shouldnt be forced to pull out from sales in USA. The argument sounds extremely bizarre, but senior a patent lawyer argues, "Samsung probably has a viable defence here".
It was in April that Apple sued Samsung for patent infringement. As part of that suit, Apple said that the Galaxy Tab ripped off the look and feel of the iPad. But now Samsung has filed a counter suit claiming that the idea for an iPad has been around for many years. In evidence, Samsung has filed a still from the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" that shows two astronauts using devices, which look very much like iPads.
This is what Samsungs defence plea has to say about the scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey: 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 D889 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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