Japan blue LED patent dispute ended who is the winner?

In January 14th foreign news, 1 years ago, the amount of compensation up to 20 billion yen ($196 million) of Nichia and former employees of Nakamura Shuji blue LED patent lawsuit, today finally settled out of court settlement, sharply reduced to 840 million yen a sudden turn for the worse, ($8 million 200 thousand). Who is the winner seems difficult to judge, but industry believes that enterprises take the case, draw up the patent system, patent law should also keep up with the pace of development of the industry adjust. Nakamura Shuji in the office when the Nichia successfully developed Blu ray LED technology. Nichia filed in 1990, the 1993 launch of products, patented in 1997. Although Nichia patents because of the high profit of 120 billion yen ($1 billion 176 million), but as developers Nakamura Shuji did not get the relative invention reward, only by Nichia issued 20 thousand yen invention prize. In general, R & D staff and business owners of the patent's contribution is the Tokyo District Court judge evaluation "invention of price" (meaning the amount Panpei) according to how important. This pile of labor patent litigation case, a trial judge think invented the contribution to society are still in such poor Nakamura Shuji Nichia research environment, to give a high evaluation. At that time, the judge to Nichia patent validity to October 2010 to estimate the patent benefits about 120 billion 800 million yen, Nakamura Shuji finds that the contribution of up to 50%, calculate the "invention of price of 60 billion 400 million yen ($589 million). Nakamura Shuji asked for the amount of 20 billion yen ($196 million), therefore, the judge should be according to the request of Nichia full payment, Nichia refused to accept the appeal again. January 2004 came out of the case has been settled out of court news, the amount of settlement below everyone glasses, plunged to 840 million yen ($8 million 200 thousand). Although the results of this case has worsened, but in the end can be acceptable to both sides of the peace ended. Despite the substantial reduction in the amount of settlement, but the amount is still a record high, there are a lot of companies gradually from the labor and patent disputes arising from the lessons learned. In order to avoid litigation is difficult to estimate the loss, Canon, Honda, and other Japanese Takeda pharmaceutical factory will cancel the bonus cap. People in the industry are calling for the best solution to prevent such disputes. Follow the practice of American companies, the two sides signed a contract in advance, is the bottom of the ax approach to pay.