Google Loses A Patent Battle To Ecofactor Over Nest Thermostats
EcoFactor claims that Nest thermostats infringed some of their patent rights. A court in Texas has convicted Google, and it has to pay $20 million in fines. The case was ventilated in 2020, and EcoFactor initially claimed that Google’s Nest Thermostat infringed the rights of two of their patents. Finally, the court ruled that only one patent had been infringed. The controversial patent deals with the method that Google’s thermostats turn off HVAC systems to save energy....