I have not received my notice yet.
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> On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Apptech wrote:
>
> Hands up if you have never heard of Gertrude Neumark
> Rothschild?
> You'd have company.
> She's a retired Columbia University Professor with some
> fundamental and apparently watertight patents in LED
> technology.
>
> She is suing, to name a partial list Avago, Bacol, Cree,
> Hitachi, Kingbright, LG Lite-On, Matsushita, Motorola,
> Nokia, Pioneer, Rohm , Samsung, Sanyo, Seoul Semiconductor,
> Sharp, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Vishay ... over her
> basic patents relating to the development on blue and UV
> LEDs. She seeks to bar entry to the US of products which
> violate her patent rights.
>
> While on some lists people were until recently proclaiming
> how little luck she would have with people with such
> extensive litigation ability, she has previously settled
> (since 2002) with Osram, Nichia & Toyoda Gosei and this year
> settled with some, including Lumileds, & Everlight Taiwan +
> Seoul Semiconductor (just recently).
>
>     "Rothschild began her research career in private
> industry, working with Sylvania Research Laboratories in
> Bayside, NY in the 1950s and later at Philips Laboratories
> in Briarcliff Manor, NY before joining Columbia as a
> professor of materials science in 1985. She conducted
> research in the 1980s and =9290s into the electrical and
> optical properties of wide-bandgap semiconductors that is
> claimed to have been pivotal in the development of
> short-wavelength emitting (blue, green, violet and
> ultraviolet) diodes now used in consumer electronics."
>
>     "The complaint (=91In the matter of Short-Wave Light
> Emitting Diodes=92) alleged infringement by 34 firms of her
> 1993 US patent 5,252,499 =91Wide band-gap semiconductors
> having low bipolar resistivity and method of formation=92
> (covering a method of producing gallium nitride-based
> semiconductors for LEDs and laser diodes emitting in the
> blue, green, violet and ultraviolet end of the spectrum)."
>
> ______________________
>
> Her patent
>
>         http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? =

> Sect1=3DPTO1&Sect2=3DHITOFF&d=3DPALL&p=3D1&u=3D%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO% =

> 2Fsrchnum.htm&r=3D1&f=3DG&l=3D50&s1=3D5252499.PN.&OS=3DPN/5252499&RS=3DPN=
/5252499
>
>     A wide band-gap semiconductor, such as a II-VI
> semiconductor having low bipolar resistivity and a method
> for producing such a semiconductor. To form this
> semiconductor, atomic hydrogen is used to neutralize
> compensating contaminants. Alternatively, the semiconductor
> dopant and hydrogen are introduced into the undoped
> semiconductor together, and later, the hydrogen is removed
> leaving an acceptably compensation free wide band-gap
> semiconductor.
>       Inventors:  Rothschild; G. F. Neumark (Hartsdale, NY)
>       Appl. No.:  07/232,405
>       Filed:  August 15, 1988
>
>
> ______________________
>
> The heart of the invention is sure to be so obvious
> retrospectively to thos 'skilled in the art' that they must
> now hate themselves forever.
>
>     " Generally speaking, in accordance with the invention,
> a semiconductor is provided which has low bipolar
> resistivity as well as a wide band-gap and a method for
> producing such a semiconductor is also provided. The p-n
> junction formed from the semiconductor has suitably low
> compensation on both the p and the n side. To form this
> semiconductor, atomic hydrogen is used to neutralize
> compensating contaminants. By introducing hydrogen to the
> semiconductor after it is doped, the compensating impurities
> will be neutralized. In an alternative embodiment, the
> dopant and hydrogen are introduced into the substrate
> together and later, the hydrogen is removed."
>
> ______________________
>
>     http://gizmodo.com/370550/old-lady-sues-tech-giants-for-patents- =

> bakes-cakes-with-lasers
>
>     http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-to-take-down- =

> sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-e/
>
>     http://gizmodo.com/tag/gertrude-neumark-rothschild/
>
>
> Now if only I could think of ....
>
>
>         R
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