This is kind of awesome. Samsung submitted 2001: A Space Odyssey as evidence that Apple didn't come up with the whole "tablets are rectangles with screens on the front" thing. Clearly these are actually CRT's buried in the table, but they're meant to look like tablets.
Samsung Uses Decades-Old Movie as Evidence Against Apple, Microsoft Moves to Ban Motorola Imports -Phandroid
Although in embarrassing news for Phandroid, the author of that article appears not to have heard of the movie...