Intermittent Windshield Wiper Materials  (Kearns vs. Ford Motor Company)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brown, Brian Ivan
label: Collection Creator
content: Kearns, Robert W.
label: Collection Creator
content: Kearns, Timothy
label: Collection Creator
content: Quan, John
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content: Robert W. Kearns Papers
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content: 1962 - 1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1406, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: Plaintiff Robert W. Kearns asserted that defendant Ford Motor Company infringed his US patent 3,351,836; US 3,564,374; US 3,581,178; US 3,582,747; US 3,602,790; and US 3,796,936 relating to electronic intermittent windshield wiper (IWW) systems. Kearns filed suit in 1978, alleging that Ford began its infringing activities in 1969.The series consists of patent applications files, early patent searches, reports, correspondence, notes, product literature, drawings (originals and copies).  There are typescript notes Kearns maintained on specific persons involved in the litigation. For example, the Ciupak, John, file contains typed notes about Kearns's relationship to Ciupak and a chronology of events if applicable. These files are arranged alphabetically by surname. Many of the documents in this series are labelled with a protective order (PO) number and were used during litigation.