Nothing, also known as Nothing Technologies, now owns Essential, the once beloved telephone company that could have been something very special had it not been for a great deal of misconduct towards its founder Andy Rubin. With all of this behind us and Essential essentially doing nothing in the past two years, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has gained full rights to Essential’s entire line of intellectual property, including logos, trademarks and patents.
There is no way to say why this happened, but the guess is that Nothing Want Essential’s patent portfolio, reported to be home to some things related to digital voice assistance. We are still not sure how this applies to the movement of Nothing’s headphones, and it may not be, but we will have to be patient to see what comes out of it.
We are very curious to know how much this purchase cost. Nothing. It can’t have been much, right?
// 9to5Google