The inventor who sued Ford — and won

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On a rainy day in 1962, Robert Kearns had one of those meandering thoughts that separate great inventors frommere mortals: What if awindshield wiper paused between each wipe, like a blinking eye?
He constructed prototypes in his basement, filed a patent, and began to dream up a plan: He’d set up apretty little factory in Detroit, become a major supplier of windshield wipers,and go down in history as one of the automobile industry’s great innovators.

Then, Ford stole his idea.

For nearly 30 years, Kearns waged an impossible legal battle against one of America’s most powerful companies. In the end, he won millions of dollars — but it cost him his sanity, his marriage, and the remaining years of his life. Kearns’ story is remembered as one of history’s great David vs. Goliath lawsuits. But it’s also a reminder of the shortcomings of the US patent system for independent inventors.


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The auto industry bought and stole many innovative ideas about gas mileage and features on autos...

Like the man they bought off in the either 60s or 70s that build a device that gave his pickup truck 60 miles a gallon...the auto industry gave him a huge sum and told him he couldnt talk about it or build another....is that true...I dont know

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Flash of Genius:

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Many people dont know how Unions started and how The Organized crime dominated them

Corporations hired paid thugs to beat any employees that showed leadership in fighting for more pay and better work conditions...this went on for years.
The story goes that a relative of a big italian Mobster was beaten by corporate security thugs...He vowed revenge and had every one of the thugs shot and it kept up with other mobs until the corporations couldnt find thugs to work so they sat down with the mobsters and they rewrote the rules...about pay etc
Vacation, benefits work conditions....thats how unions started and that how the mob came to control them, they started them.

The corporations brought it all on themselves..now fast forward till today the environement has changed and now the unions can be thugs...
Unions wouldnt have started if it werent for greedy corporations that wanted slave labor from americans

Everyone had to hear about the Triangle Shirt Factory...were all the doors were chained shut from keeping their mostly teen aged italian employees that did not speak english, from stepping outside to get a breath of freshair or a smoke...they LOCKED them inside and when there was a MASSIVE fire these women could not get out of the building..

123 teenaged girls and 23 men this was in 1911 and it was in greenwich village.

That created the beginning of Osha, vile greedy company owners brought all this on themsleves