Sep
29
Ford Plays the Bad Guy in ‘Flash of Genius’
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DETROIT (AdAge.com) — As if troubled Ford Motor Co. needed another problem, this week Universal Studios releases "Flash of Genius," a film that paints the company as a corporate ogre. The film is based on the true story of Detroit engineering professor Robert Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper in the late 1960s and shopped it around to carmakers. After he sued two dozen automakers for patent infringement, he eventually reached a $10 million settlement with Ford.
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