TOYOTA synthesis and professor of Columbia reached an out of court settlement agreement

In August 9, 2006, after a patent infringement dispute after a year, the Columbia Gertrude Neumark professor (Toyoda Gosei) and TOYOTA reached out of court settlement agreement.

Gertrude Neumark a year ago that the Toyoda and Kita Miko company violated her U.S. Patent No. 4904618 and 5252499 of the wide bandgap semiconductor technology patent (Toyoda LED mainly adopts III nitride materials, while the two controversial patent is for ZnSe or ZnTe II-VI compound). In this regard, Toyoda had a Neumark have is invalid patent, it is unreasonable to require the ridiculous.

According to the lawyer, Neumark has licensed Toyoda to manufacture, import and sell LED and laser diodes based on its technology, but the terms of the settlement are still confidential. In addition, the lawyer added, although the lawsuit with Toyoda is not yet complete, Neumark and Cree, Lumileds and Osram made a similar claim.