September 04, 2025
A Texas federal judge has approved Neonode Smartphone's bid to dismiss the company's patent suit against Samsung over its swipe to unlock feature after the parties reached a deal in the case.
August 20, 2024
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday revived part of a small smartphone company's patent suit against Samsung over its "swipe to unlock" feature, saying that one of Neonode Smartphone's core patent claims was more definite in its scope than the lower court gave it credit for.
June 12, 2024
The Federal Circuit has quickly disposed of an appeal over an administrative board ruling that wiped out language in a patent asserted in a small Swedish smartphone company's litigation against Apple and Samsung over claims its founder was the first to develop a "slide to unlock" feature.
June 29, 2023
A Texas federal judge has agreed to trim certain parts of a small smartphone company's patent lawsuit against Samsung over the "slide-to-unlock" feature in their devices, but left room for the case to be amended.
June 09, 2020
A small smartphone company has lodged patent lawsuits against Apple and Samsung over the "slide-to-unlock" feature in their devices, several years after the company's technology played a part in the tech giants' patent war.