Samsung Partly Dodges Neonode Willful Patent Infringement Claims

A lawsuit by a Swedish smartphone company against Samsung Electronics Co. for alleged infringement of two phone interface patents was trimmed back.

Neonode Smartphone LLC sued Samsung in June 2020 alleging that the Korean tech giant willfully infringed two of its touchscreen patents—US Patent Nos. 8,095,879 and 8,812,993—both before and after the lawsuit was filed.

At Samsung’s urging, however, US District Court for the Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright on Wednesday issued an order chopping from the case claims it willfully infringed the Neonode patents prior to getting sued. Albright found a lack of hard proof ...