Tat Thang

Nissan sued a computer repairman for $10,000,000 to take the Nissan․com domain.

His legal last name was Uzi Nissan.

He refused to fold, spent $3,000,000 fighting them in federal court for 8 years, and won.

This is the story of Uzi Nissan and why a $20B car giant still can't use Nissan․com.

1980-1994

- Uzi Nissan emigrates from Israel to Raleigh, North Carolina
- opens a small auto repair shop in 1980 using his family surname
- launches Nissan Computer Corporation on May 14, 1991 selling PCs and servers
- registers Nissan․com on June 4, 1994 for $70 while the automaker barely touches the web

December 10, 1999

- Nissan Motor Co. realizes a North Carolina PC shop owns their exact domain
- instead of paying his asking price, the automaker files a $10,000,000 federal lawsuit for cybersquatting
- Uzi refuses to back down and turns the homepage of Nissan․com into a public archive of their legal threats

1999-2007

- the court battle drags on for 8 years across district court, the Ninth Circuit, and a Supreme Court petition
- Uzi spends over $3,000,000 in legal fees and takes out two mortgages on his home
- federal judges rule a corporation can't strip a man of a domain built on his own birth name

July 2020 - Today

- Uzi Nissan passes away from COVID-19 in July 2020 at age 68
- when thieves hijack the domain after his death, a federal judge orders Nissan․com returned to his family estate in April 2024

To this day, Nissan Motors is forced to use NissanUSA․com.

If you type Nissan․com into your browser right now, you still don't get a car dealership.

You get a memorial to the computer repairman who beat a multinational giant over his own last name.

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Ford copied a college professor's basement invention onto millions of cars and paid him $0.

His name was Robert Kearns.

He fired his own lawyers, rejected a $30,000,000 settlement because Ford wouldn't admit he invented it, and beat Detroit in federal court.

This is the story of Robert Kearns and why every car on Earth still blinks in the rain like his injured left eye.

1953 - 1963

- on his wedding night in 1953, a champagne cork hits engineering professor Robert Kearns in the left eye and leaves him legally blind on that side
- driving his Ford Galaxie through light Detroit rain in 1963, he notices standard wipers scrape non stop across dry glass while the human eyelid blinks and pauses every few seconds
- working in his basement with standard transistors, capacitors, and resistors, he builds the first electronic intermittent wiper and files for US Patent 3,351,836

1963 - 1969

- Kearns drives his prototype straight to Ford headquarters in Dearborn, where Ford engineers test his car and promise a supply contract once the unit passes durability specs
- right after Kearns receives his patent in November 1967 and explains how his timing circuit works, Ford abruptly cuts contact and cancels the deal
- in 1969, Ford rolls out intermittent wipers on its Mercury line and installs the system across millions of cars while paying Kearns $0

1978 - 1990

- Kearns sues Ford in 1978 and runs straight into Detroit's attrition math: dragging one individual through 12 years of federal motions usually bankrupts him long before a jury sits down
- Ford's legal team argues Kearns invented nothing original because transistors, capacitors, and resistors already existed in electronics catalogs
- representing himself alongside his son Dennis, Kearns reads the opening line of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to the jury and asks if Dickens wrote nothing new because every word was already in the dictionary

1990 - 1995

- before verdict in 1990, Ford offers $30,000,000 to settle out of court, and Kearns turns it down because Ford refuses to put in writing that he invented the intermittent wiper
- the federal jury rules Ford infringed his patent, forcing Ford to pay $10,200,000 to close all appeals
- Kearns immediately takes Chrysler to trial without a law firm, wins an $18,740,465 judgment, and defeats Chrysler's final appeal at the US Supreme Court in March 1995

To this day, Kearns's basement prototype sits in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and his blink circuit runs inside 1.4 billion cars on the road.

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