On September 25, 2024, 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. 9,319,075. The decision was issued in IPR2022-01223, filed by Apple. G&S co-founding partner Philip Graves 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 alleging infringement of the ‘075 patent as well as other Smart Mobile patents.