Just finished watching Flash of Genius. This is a story about Robert Kearnes who is the inventor of intermittent wiper where his patent was infringed by Ford, Chrysler and basically every car manufacturer out there.
He showed his invention to Ford and was praised for able to design something that they failed to come out with for so long. Somehow they enter into talk and some agreement was made in non-legal binding status. However, Ford decided to abandon the deal and Bob was left in the lurch.
Few years later, Ford come out with intermittent wiper and Bob was furious. He is now up against a giant company who infringed on his pattern. Because of the difficulties to prove his case, he think a lot and later diagnosed to having some mental problem. That's why, if there's no way we can solve a certain issue, we must not forced to think too much. Else, we'll get a lot of white hairs and probably will lose our mind.
Anyway, in the end, he won litigation against Ford and Chrysler. He passed away in 2005 while still holding grudges which is highlighted in this news of his death:
In his final years, he drove around in two aging vehicles: a 1978 Ford pickup and a 1965 Chrysler. Neither had intermittent wipers.
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