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To: alfranco who wrote (6923)	11/11/2002 5:22:52 AM
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Nakamura, inventor of blue/violet LED Stan Ovshinsky stated in ECD's last CC on September 30th: "The big market that’s developing is rewriteable DVD and we are just waiting for a patent settlement between the two companies, one in Japan who originated it . That has taken place just a week or two ago." When I heard Stan I remembered Nichia suing Cree over blue LEDs a few years ago but I think Cree wound up winning in Japanese court. I'm not sure I've pegged Stan's reference but this may be(?) what he was talking about: the suit between Nichia and its' former employee, Shuji Nakamura who invented blue/violet LEDs while working at Nichia and left the firm just as Nichia began to commercialize it. After leaving Nichia, Nakamura joined the faculty at UC Santa Barbara and, in fact, became a consultant to Cree. This may or may not be the 'patent settlement' that Stan referred too but here are 2 reports on Nakamura and his lawsuit against Nichia and just one week before Stan said 'just a week or two ago'... Nakamura lost in Japanese court. background from the Interview with Nakamura in May 2002 optics.org Japanese court rules against Nakamura September 23, 2002 optics.org Al

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