Tokyo District Court
Books
- The Impossible Light Gallium Nitride, Corporate Betrayal, and the Invention of Blue Light · Liszt Think
For decades, the electronics industry deemed a bright blue LED physically impossible.
- The Patent Filing…ourts. The lawsuit Nakamura would file against Nichia in 2001 would challenge the assumption that standard compensation was sufficient. The Tokyo District Court would agree with him, awarding him ¥20 billion, the largest such award in Japanese history. The decision would be appealed, reduced, settle…
- The Lawsuit Is FiledThe clerk at the Tokyo District Court accepted the complaint and assigned a case number. The document itself was spare, formal, devastating in its simplicity. Beneath the court…
- The Courtroom of PhotonsOn August 29, 2001, a document entered the judicial record at the Tokyo District Court: a civil complaint, stamped with the court’s receiving seal and assigned its docket number. The complaint’s attached exhibit list signaled…