On July 18, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued two opinions affirming IPR wins for G&S client Neonode Smartphone LLC, confirming the patentability of Neonode Smartphone’s U.S. Patent No. 8,095,879. The first ruling, in Case No. 23-1464, affirmed the PTAB’s Final Written Decision confirming the patentability of all challenged claims of the ‘879 patent in an IPR filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and Apple Inc. The second ruling, in Case No. 23-1638, affirmed the PTAB’s Final Written Decision confirming the patentability of all challenged claims of the ‘879 Patent in an IPR filed by Google LLC. G&S co-founding partner Phil Graves argued the cases before the Federal Circuit. G&S is also representing Neonode Smartphone in pending litigation against Samsung and Apple alleging infringement of the ‘879 patent.