TOKYO: A Japanese court ordered a company yesterday to pay a former worker 20 billion yen (RM718mil) in compensation for his efforts in inventing a highly profitable lighting technology.
The case of Shuji Nakamura, now professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has grown to symbolise the struggle of the individual salaryman'' worker against Japanese companies over patent rights in a nation where selfless corporate loyalty has been the rule for decades.
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