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Honeywell sues Nest for patent infringement – Marco.org 

Some of the patents are for things like displaying a grammatically correct sentence on a thermostat.

My question, as I’m not a lawyer: I thought patents covered ONE WAY of doing things: that is to say, the patent for Edison’s lightbulb was about the way he made a lightbulb. If there’s another way to do something, wouldn’t that be clear of any patent infringement? (That’s setting aside the problem of the USPTO office granting overly-broad patents, which is an application problem, not a problem with the patent system itself.) Any lawyer-ly folks out there want to clarify for me?

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