On November 7, 2023, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a Final Written Decision confirming the patentability of all challenged claims of G&S client Smart Mobile Technologies LLC’ s U.S. Patent No. 8,472,936. The decision was issued in IPR2022-00981, which had been filed by Apple and Samsung. G&S co-founding partner Greer Shaw principally represented Smart Mobile in the matter, including at the oral hearing before a panel of three Administrative Patent Judges. G&S is concurrently representing Smart Mobile in pending litigation against Apple and Samsung alleging infringement of the ‘936 patent as well as other Smart Mobile patents.