Little Old Lady Sues Blu-ray

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The U.S. International Trade Commission is now launching an investigation into 30 companies which include Sony Corp, Matsushita (Panasonic), Nokia, Motorola, Lite-On, LG, Hitachi, Pioneer, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba and others on possible grounds of patent infringements related to Blu-ray disc technology.This isn't the first time a Blu-ray lawsuit has been filed, not will it likely be the last. We found it funny that Philips wasn't on the list, and happened to be a former employer of Gertrude's and who has established an endowed fund that is used to support the newly-created Philips Electronics Professorship in Columbia’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics in The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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[Kurt C.]

Here she is

OK, I know the ability to find these things makes me an uber-geek, but here they are. The patents are under the name Gertrude Neumark:

RESULT LIST
7 results found in the Worldwide database for:
Gertrude Neumark as the inventor
(Results are sorted by date of upload in database)

1 WIDE BAND-GAP SEMICONDUCTORS HAVING LOW BIPOLAR RESISTIVITY AND METHOD OF FORMATION
Inventor: NEUMARK GERTRUDE F (US) Applicant: NEUMARK GERTRUDE F (US)
EC: H01L21/368B; H01L21/38; (+2) IPC: C30B29/48; C30B31/06; H01L21/208 (+11) Publication info: KR0134771B - 1998-04-20

2 GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE LIGHT EMITTING SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIALS AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE SAME
Inventor: NEUMARK GERTRUDE F; BHARGAVA RAMESHWAR N Applicant: PHILIPS CORP
EC: IPC: H01L33/00; H01L33/00; (IPC1-7): H01L33/00
Publication info: CA982809 - 1976-02-03

3 SCINTILLATION DETECTOR COMPRISING A SCINTILLATOR AND A PHOTODETECTOR INTEGRALLY COMBINED IN A SEMICONDUCTOR CRYSTAL
Inventor: LEVENTHAL EDWIN A; RITTNER EDMUND S; (+1) Applicant: PHILIPS NV EC: IPC:
Publication info: CA842965 - 1970-05-26

4 Process for doping crystals of wide band gap semiconductors
Inventor: NEUMARK GERTRUDE F (US) Applicant: NEUMARK GERTRUDE F (US)
EC: H01L21/368B; H01L21/38; (+2) IPC: H01L21/368; H01L21/38; H01L33/00 (+3)
Publication info: US4904618 - 1990-02-27

5 GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE LIGHT EMITTING SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIALS
Inventor: BHARGAZA RAMESHWAR NATH (US); NEUMARK GERTRUDE F (US) Applicant: PHILIPS CORP (US)
EC: C30B19/04; H01L33/00G3 IPC: C30B19/04; H01L33/00; C30B19/00 (+2)
Publication info: US4051061 - 1977-09-27

6 GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE LIGHT EMITTING SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIALS
Inventor: BHARGAVA RAMESHWAR NATH; NEUMARK GERTRUDE FANNY Applicant: PHILIPS CORP
EC: H01L21/00; H01L33/00; (+1) IPC: H01L21/00; H01L33/00; H01L21/00 (+4)
Publication info: AU4488072 - 1974-01-31

7 Szintillationsdetektor
Inventor: A LEVENTHAL EDWIN; F NEUMARK GERTRUDE; (+1) Applicant: PHILIPS NV
EC: G01T1/20D; G01T1/20P; (+2) IPC: G01T1/20; G01T1/202; H01L31/00 (+2)
Publication info: DE1614212 - 1970-05-27

 

[markw]

Serves 'em rignt! After all ,she was minding her own business.

..while riding in that boat.

http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/national/2008/03/20/Stingray.Death/

oops.. you said BLU ray, not STING ray. never mind...

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

Such idiocy is expected from a Columbia reject.....

 

[allargon]

She sued Toshiba, too, as HD DVD also used the blue-violet laser. It's not just Blu-Ray.

Philips already settled.

The difference is that she can't ask Toshiba for a percentage of the profits. She would just get an invoice sent to her instead!

 

[Seth=L]

Considering the ITC can't even properly spell HD-DVD

Now look who can't spell HD DVD properly.

 

[Biggiesized]

Now look who can't spell HD DVD properly.

Exactly.

Clint, what were you thinking?

 

[Audioholics]

Now look who can't spell HD DVD properly.

No, look at the context. They meant HD-DVD (the generic term) not the format, since they then went on to parenthetically cite examples.

It's a pet peeve of mine when people get it wrong.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

For these whom unaware - what this "sweet little old lady" comes from family which DEFINES term OLD MONEY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschilds

I say not to be tanked lightly, these guys can afford best lawyers on the planet.

 

[stratman]

For these whom unaware - what this "sweet little old lady" comes from family which DEFINES term OLD MONEY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschilds

I say not to be tanked lightly, these guys can afford best lawyers on the planet.

I don't think she's part of those Rothschilds.

 

[majorloser]

I don't think she's part of those Rothschilds.

I think she does. V. Henry Rothschilds was her father. Definitely "old money".

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E4D91031E233A25754C1A9639C946096D6CF

 

[ParkerAudio]

Female inventors of electronics? We have them, but they are not that good. Maybe only a little better than female explorers, such as Amelia Earhart.