The Ford case came to trial in January, 1990-twelve years after it was filed. Most of Kearns' patents had expired by then.

福特侵权案于1990年1月开庭审理，距离科恩斯提出上诉已经过去了12年，而且他的大多数专利已经过期了。

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Marty Adelman, the Wayne State law professor, was an expert witness in the Ford case. He told me that once Kearns got into the courtroom the odds of his winning shifted dramatically in his favor.

法学教授马丁·阿德尔曼是福特案的专家证人，他告诉我，科恩斯的案子一开审，事态就朝着有利于他的方向戏剧性地逆转了。

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Eventually, they received a letter back saying that Ford was not infringing Kearns' patents and that, in any case, Kearns' patents were invalid.

最终，他们受到回信声称福特公司并未侵犯卡恩斯的专利权，并且，无论如何，卡恩斯的专利是无效的。

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One of the most famous of these involved the Ford Pinto case.

其中最著名的是福特平托的案例。

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Month to month sales is more significant than yearly sales figures this year, and in this case Ford is the biggest winner, having sold 2% more in September than it did in August.

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But, to return to the case of Ford, what if employers simply decided to hand workers a bigger piece of the pie?

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