Samsung Settles Touchscreen Lawsuit Revived by Federal Circuit

June 13, 2025, 9:41 PM UTC

Samsung Electronics Co. and Neonode Smartphone LLC settled a patent dispute Friday, staving off trial over whether the phone-maker copied a Swedish inventor’s touchscreen invention.

The parties in a joint filing asked the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to stay all deadlines for 30 days while the agreement is completed. Neonode sued both Samsung and Apple Inc. in 2020 for infringing a pair of patents.

The Samsung suit was cut short in August 2023 after Judge Alan Albright found one of Neonode’s patents to be indefinite and therefore invalid. Another of the company’s patents was ruled ...

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