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Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case
suraj.sun and several other readers sent word that Samsung is using a clip from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of prior art in its defense against Apple's patent infringement claims. "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 also supplied a clip from 1970s British TV series The Tomorrow People.
I can't allow your patent suit to proceed.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
So Apple will definitely win.
Look AC, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Apple patented the rectangle.
Don't even compare those two. One is just a toy with no real-world utility, that people get bored with after two days and only bring out to impress their friends who still don't have one. The other is an Etch-a-Sketch.
Both rectangular.
Gently reply
And the various Linux companies were probably inspired by the Vulcan: all logic and reason with virtually no social skills, a propensity for being intellectually and ideologically blind-sided by those who do not share their perspective, and really dopey haircuts.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
Imagine the first time some stupid bitch plummets from the sky into a school zone while texting and talking on her other phone at the same time...
Yours has a Y?!?!
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