In the 1980s I spent several years defending Honeywell against some programmable thermostat patents filed in the late 1970s by one Burness C. Hall, who had aspi

In the 1980s I spent several years defending Honeywell against some programmable thermostat patents filed in the late 1970s by one Burness C. Hall, who had aspirations to start a company. There was a ton of prior art out there. (The parties eventually settled.) https://patents.google.com/patent/US4200910A/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US4200910A/