Samsung vs Apple + Stanley Kubrick?

This post doesn't deal as much with 3D as it does current technology giants and their constant legal struggles. With the grey areas that intellectual property laws create and the huge amounts of money companies like Apple and Samsung have to spend, some interesting cases have come to be. Companies like Google and Apple have to employ armies of lawyers to protect the patents that they push out. With the explosion of the internet and the amount of software produced every year, old property right rules are at times proving to be obsolete. There is even a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to the Software Patent Debate. These huge companies use their lawyers to try and catch each other in loop holes and squeeze millions of dollars out of settlements and lost profits.

An article I read shows just how out of hand these battles can get. Samsung recently filed a case claiming that the Apple Iphone and Ipad copy prior art in the form of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Samsung is basically claiming that the Apple products look too similar to the monolithic black structure in the film. It was filed as a counter suit to a prior attack by Apple on the Samsung Galaxy tablet design. You can read the article here.