Apple is currently taking Samsung to court over theft of its iPad design, and now Samsung is fighting back, accusing Apple of stealing the original iPad design from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey

Foss Patents reported about Samsung's recently filed opposition brief in their blogspot blog fosspatents.blogspot.com, and they even include a still from the original movie as part of the proof that Samsung has provided to courts (see attached), along with this explanation

Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. 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.
Only time will tell what will happen as the courts decide on the fate of both of these cases.