Nobel laureate Nakamura's lighting company opens office in Yokohama
Nobel loreate Shuji Nakamura said Thursday his U.S.-based company Soraa Inc. has opened an office in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, to market high-quality light-emitting diode lamps in Japan. "Japan boasts the world's widest diffusion of LED lamps," said Nakamura, one of three Japan-born scientists awarded ...
Nobel physics laureates Akasaki, Nomura, three others honored by U.S. academy for LED technology
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering said Tuesday it has honored five scientists for their contribution to the development of light-emitting diodes, including the 2014 Nobel physics prize laureates Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura. The academy said they will give the five pioneer LED developers ...
The three Japan-born physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for inventing energy-efficient blue light-emitting diodes received their prize at a ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday. The three are Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was born ...
As the government drafts amendments to the patent law, the question is how effective the new rules will be in ensuring fair corporate remuneration to inventors so that they keep their engineering talent in Japan to enhance the nation's industrial competitiveness.
Japan's Nobel win should spur Abe to action
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been quiet on one reform that truly would encourage the risk-taking culture Japan needs so badly: making sure employees get paid for their inventions.
The achievements of Nobel winners Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura highlight why scientific freedom and daring research should be encouraged in Japan.
The inventor of the blue light-emitting diode said Wednesday he was forced to settle with Nichia Corp. out of court for ¥843 million over the diode patent. Shuji Nakamura, currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, arrived in Tokyo a day after ...
Settlement in blue LED patent suit could reach 1.5 billion yen
Nichia Corp. and former researcher Shuji Nakamura are negotiating a settlement worth ¥500 million to ¥1.5 billion over their high-profile dispute on the patent for the blue light-emitting diode, according to sources familiar with the lawsuit. The Tokyo High Court recommended in December that the ...
The Tokyo High Court recommended that a 50-year-old researcher and Nichia Corp., his former employer, settle their dispute over the blue light-emitting diode patent without any court ruling. The Tokyo District Court ordered Nichia in January to pay 20 billion yen to Shuji Nakamura as ...
Thomas Edison's electricity, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, the Wright Brothers' creaky biplane, H.G. Wells' time machine (OK, that last one hasn't happened yet), but through these world-changing discoveries, our daily lives have been made easier. Flick a switch and light banishes the darkness, pick ...
Chemical maker Nichia Corp. deposited ¥10 billion at the Justice Ministry after a court approved its request to block the execution of a January ruling ordering it to pay ¥20 billion to the inventor of a key semiconductor device, Nichia officials said Saturday. The company ...
Court dismisses inventor's patent claim but will consider reward
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday acknowledged Nichia Corp.'s ownership of the patent for a key semiconductor device, rejecting a suit filed by the inventor, now a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. But the court recognized that Shuji Nakamura, 48, is eligible ...
