From the movie, "2001: a Space Oddessy"
From the movie, "2001: a Space Oddessy"
Samsung tried to use that image as examples of "prior art" and it was roundly rejected by the courts. The whole purpose of bringing it up was propaganda for public consumption and you and a lot of others bought it. Prior art has to be in the area of the invention, not fiction, just showing that someone thought an idea might be a cool thing in the future. "Prior Art" is a term in law which has a specific meaning, not the public mistaken concept that you just put up here. Apple even brought in the FX people in "2001: a Space Odyssey" who testified that below that table was three feet of television equipment to achieve that effect, . . and that those "tablets" were built into the table, and were not in any way portable, and all illusion. Apple won almost $1Billion from Samsung in that lawsuit. Sorry, no banana.
Facts are difficult things.