On: Google to Acquire Nest

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Well, that should resolve their patent issues.

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That had to have been a big headache for them: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/12/2942861/nest-answers-paten...

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Elaborate?

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Honeywell sued them. Google must have enough defensive patents to use against Honeywell to make them go away. Terrible, of course, but that's the way the world works.