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1. In Memoriam to Robert W. Kearns , OSS Society Newsletter, Spring 2005, p.13: "Robert W. Kearns, 77, died in Baltimore on Feb. 9, 2005. He invented the adjustable windshield wiper for automobiles. During World War II he served with OSS." http://www.osssociety.org/pdfs/oss_spring_05.pdf
2. Schudel, Max, "Accomplished, Frustrated Inventor Dies", Washington Post, Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page B01: "Earlier in life, Kearns had been a high school cross-country star, an outstanding violinist and a teenage intelligence officer in World War II. But from 1976, his sole focus in life was to battle the auto giants and reclaim his invention." https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54564-2005Feb25.html
3. "Robert W Kearns". NameBase. http://www.namebase.org/xkas/Robert-W-Kearns.html. Retrieved 2012-01-20. 
4. "Robert Kearns, Inventor of Intermittent Windshield Wipers and Battled Car Companies, Dies at 77" AP News, February 25, 2005 http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2005/02/25/005398.html
5. Wohleber, Curt, The Windshield Wiper : Nonstop ones made drivers crazy. Inventing a solution did the same to Robert Kearns" , American Heritage Invention and Technology, Summer 2007, Volume 23, Issue 1 http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2007/1/2007_1_6.shtml
6. Johnson, Reed, Robert Kearns' flawed 'Genius' , AP / Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2008. Quoting the article about the cork and eye blinking inspiration: "When I asked him about that charming anecdote 15 years ago, Kearns quickly dismissed it as baloney". http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-et-kearns3-2008oct03,0,7571251.story
7. Associated Press, Robert Kearns, 77, Inventor of Intermittent Wipers, Dies, New York Times obituary, February 26, 2005 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/obituaries/26kearns.html
8. Kearns v. Chrysler Corp., 32 F.3d 1541 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
9. 514 U.S. 1032.
10. Ronspies, Jeff A., "Does David Need a New Sling? Small Entities Face a Costly Barrier to Patent Protection" , 4 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 184 (2004), The John Marshall Law School, Chicago. Cf. p.196. http://www.jmripl.com/Publications/Vol4/Issue1/ronspies.pdf
11. Schudel, Matt. "Accomplished, Frustrated Inventor Dies." The Washington Post . Saturday February 26, 2005. B01. Retrieved on August 13, 2011. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54564-2005Feb25.html
12. Bob Kearns' Biography page http://www.inventored.org/inventors/Kearns/employment.html
13. "Lawsuits-as-a-Service: Is Peter Thiel Funding a Civil Litigation Revolution?" (in en). PCMAG. https://www.pcmag.com/article/347545/lawsuits-as-a-service-is-peter-thiel-funding-a-civil-litiga. 
14. Burk, Dan L., and Lemley, Mark A., "Policy Levers in Patent Law", Virginia Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 7 (Nov., 2003), pp. 1575-1696. Cf. p.1590-1591 and note 42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3202360
15. Merges, Robert P., "A Transactional View of Property Rights", Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Year 2005 Paper 8. Cf. p.17 and note 37. http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=bclt
16. "Kearns' battle vs. auto giants took decades". http://www.gazette.net/stories/10152008/gaitnew205652_32470.shtml. 
17. Kearns, 77, Inventor of Intermittent Wipers, Dies, February 25, 2005- Retrieved 2018-07-01 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/obituaries/robert-Robert
18. RISEN, JAMES (1990-04-24). "Inventor Winning Long Legal Battle With Auto Maker : Patents: Robert Kearns developed the intermittent windshield wiper more than 20 years ago. He claims the car companies stole his idea." (in en-US). Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-24/business/fi-268_1_robert-kearns.