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. 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.
Samsung cites 2001: A Space Odyssey in Apple patent suit
Posted on Wednesday, August 24 2011 @ 21:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
HardOCP reports Samsung cited Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as prior art in the iPad lawsuit with Apple: