What They Say
The Elec reports that an employee of Samsung Display has been awarded compensation to a staff member by a court in Seoul for a patent relating to oxide TFTs in G6 fabs. However, the award of $51K was much less than the executive, who left Samsung in 2014 demanded. He has said he will appeal.
The patents in question are for TFT array panel, TFT and zinc oxide based sputtering target for the same as well as zinc oxide-based sputtering target, method of preparing the same, and TFT including a barrier layer deposited by the zinc oxide-based sputtering target. They were field while Park worked at Samsung Display from 2009.
What We Think
Prof. Shuji Nakamura famously won $8.1 million from Nichia after his invention of the blue LED. He took them to court after they originally offered him $200 before he left in 2001. (BR)
Shuji Nakamura – Image: Ladislav Markuš
