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Google’s smart home system Nest does not infringe Profectus Technology’s digital picture frame patent, a Texas jury has ruled.

A company fighting to assert its intellectual property rights said two of Google LLC's Nest smart-home products infringe its digital picture frame patent, while the tech giant argued the patent isn't even valid, as the case passed into a Texas federal jury's hands Tuesday.

A Western District of Texas jury on Wednesday cleared Google LLC of allegations that two of its Nest smart-home products infringe a digital picture frame patent owned by Profectus Technology LLC and determined that the asserted claims of the patent-at-issue are invalid.

Google "conservatively" owes nearly $3 million for its Nest smart-home products that allegedly infringe a digital picture frame patent, a Texas federal jury heard from the patent owners' damages expert as their company rested its case on Monday.

Google LLC's Nest smart-home products infringe a digital picture frame patent, a Texas federal jury heard Friday when the co-owner of the patent testified that he and his brother tried to get Google to license the technology before resorting to litigation.

A jury trial over claims that Google's Nest smart-home products infringe a digital picture frame patent got underway Thursday before U.S. District Judge Alan Albright in Texas, with one of the patent's owners testifying he came up with the idea in 1999 as an easy way to share photos.

Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright on Wednesday refused to let Google transfer a patent lawsuit over its Nest smart-home unit to California ahead of an October trial, despite arguments that forcing Google engineers to take connecting flights to West Texas was "highly inconvenient."