Ajinomoto Co. sued South Korean food maker CJ CheilJedang and its affiliates (CJ Group) for infringement of a patent related to the manufacturing method of the umami seasoning Ajinomoto in Germany. CJ reached a settlement with Ajinomoto. agreed to pay. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on the 26th. The total amount of the settlement has not been disclosed, but is believed to be around 4 billion yen.
According to the newspaper, in 2016 Ajinomoto competed with CJ Group to sell monosodium glutamate (MSG..
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Ajinomoto Co. sued South Korean food maker CJ CheilJedang and its affiliates (CJ Group) for infringement of a patent related to the manufacturing method of the umami seasoning Ajinomoto in Germany. CJ reached a settlement with Ajinomoto. agreed to pay. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on the 26th. The total amount of the settlement has not been disclosed, but is believed to be around 4 billion yen.
According to the newspaper, in 2016 Ajinomoto filed four patent infringement lawsuits once morest the CJ Group over the manufacturing method of monosodium glutamate (MSG), the main ingredient of Ajinomoto, and the feed-use amino acid tryptophan, in courts of Japan, the United States, and Germany. caused me to Of these, three lawsuits in Japan and the United States were all settled with the payment of settlement money by last year. The settlement in Germany is expected to put an end to the patent dispute between the two companies.
The point at issue in the lawsuit was whether CJ Group imitated Ajinomoto’s Ajinomoto. It doesn’t matter if the taste is similar if the manufacturing method is different, but Ajinomoto claimed that CJ used the patent without permission. CJ Group used Ajinomoto’s MSG microbial manufacturing technology without permission and sold the culture medium following MSG purification as a fertilizer. was detected.
Since 1909, Ajinomoto, known as the originator of umami, has been mass-producing seasonings that are different from saltiness and sweetness. The main ingredient is an amino acid called MSG, which was developed by chemist Kikunae Ikeda. Ikeda created a new word, umami, by combining the Japanese word umai, which means ‘delicious’, with the word ‘taste’.
Tokyo = Correspondent Song Ho Chul
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