Samsung defends against Apple iPad lawsuit by claiming 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art

No, you didn’t read the headline wrong — Samsung is claiming their Galaxy Tab 10.1 couldn’t be a copy of Apple’s iPad because… it was copying the earlier movie prop from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Well, okay, not copying — more like maintaining the design elements were commonplace in pop culture, especially science fiction. One of the ways to invalidate a patent is to prove prior art — that someone had the idea before the company

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