“Yesterday, Samsung used Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey — a forty year old science fiction movie about a future that is now ten years old — as an example of prior art in their ongoing IP lawsuits,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“The only problem? The devices shown in 2001 aren’t touchscreen tablets at all!” Brownlee reports. “Over at ObamaPacman.com, there’s a great debunking of Samsung’s prior art argument. You should read the whole thing, but here’s the jist: the devices in 2001 are televisions, not tablets.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Angel C.” for the heads up.]