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Japanese Inventor Wins LED Patent Trial

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TOKYO, Feb. 4 -- The Tokyo District Court ordered Nichia Corp. to pay a former worker $189 million for his work on the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, in a landmark ruling on inventors' rights in Japan. Shuji Nakamura -- now a professor at the College of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he has done pioneering work with semiconductors based on gallium nitrides -- has symbolized the struggle of the individual "salaryman" over patents in a nation where corporate devotion has been the rule for decades, The Associated Press said. The compensation is the most...Read full article

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    Published: February 2004
    blue light-emitting diodegallium nitridesLight SourcesNews & FeaturesNichiasemiconductorsShuji NakamuraTokyo District CourtUniversity of California at Santa BarbaraLEDs

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