Chuckle Chuckle: Samsung claims Stanley Kubrick invented the iPad in '2001: A Space Odyssey'

The iPad itself reminded me of the monolith in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact I had engraved on mine, "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1 (TMA-1) A decade later the iPad 2 was born." This obscure movie reference may be nerdy, but is probably unique.

While this may be funny, I am actually on Samsung's side with this one. I don't believe that Apple copied the iPad from Stanley Kubrick but think about it. If Stanley Kubrick had filed a patent on what was shown in the film, then he could easily pull the same tactics that Apple is pulling now. Imagine if everyone who dreamed up a device in such vague terms could make it so that others could not use it.

Hell, if anyone comes up with a way of using contained anti-matter to propel a ship past the speed of light then I think Gene Roddenberry is going to come knocking on their door crying patent infringement and stopping the world from achieving progress.

This is exactly why there needs to be a stop put to patent misuse.

Answer is simple: Apple needs to stop bitching like a whiny baby who got her lollipop taken away and man up and step it up. Competition fuels innovation. Step it up and make something better than Samsung. IMO iPad is infinitely better than any Android device anyway.

Those don't look like tabliets. They appear to be built into the table they're eating on. Either way, this is a bad defense. It's clear just by looking at Samsung's phones that they copied Apple's UI design. Any judge who doesn't see that is an idiot.

Don't worry! Apple provided Kubrick with those tablets!
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The tablet in the clip haa approximately 10 protruding buttons across the bottom, plus what looks like a dial also. The iPad has just 1 button on the front, that lays flush with the front. The form factors are not the same as the iPad. My tv has a predominantly flat front screen and a flat back, does that breach the patent?

Oh, come ON, Samsung. Everybody KNOWS that it was Star Trek that invented them first, 1967/1968. Granted, they looked like thick clipboards with stoplights grafted to their tops, and it was only during The Next Generation that they started to look like our beloved iPads. Geez, get your history right.

If Kubrick put the idea out there then why didn't Samsung go with the design before they saw the iPad. Geez, Arthur C Clarke tried to show them the way. Why wait for Apple to actually make the thing?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a trademark dress suit, not a patent suit? Apple is arguing that the look and feel of the iPad is a trademark, like Coke-a Cola's bottles. Its my understanding (but I could be wrong) that that this is something fought out in court in order to claim it.

Yeah, don't understand the chuckle either Mel... It's actually pretty dang smart of them to bring up.

Heck, Arthur C. Clarke outlined/fantasized our current satellite systems in such detail that none of the governments of the world were able to patent them, and boy did they have an army of patent lawyers.

Yeah, don't understand the chuckle either Mel... It's actually pretty dang smart of them to bring up.

Heck, Arthur C. Clarke outlined/fantasized our current satellite systems in such detail that none of the governments of the world were able to patent them, and boy did they have an army of patent lawyers..