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- THE WEEK, Page 30BUSINESSEt Cetera
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- WIPE OUT
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- Robert Kearns has a clear view from his car window to the
- bank, thanks to a federal jury in Detroit. Last week Kearns, the
- inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3
- million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must
- pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it
- equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a
- similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has
- lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers.
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