After more than 12 hours into all-day settlement negotiations last summer, Florida inventor and specialty tire designer Jordan Fishman was ready to declare victory and go to bed.

As plaintiff in a 2010 copyright infringement trial in federal district court in Virginia, the now 77-year-old Fishman had won a $26 million verdict against a Chinese tire manufacturer and its Dubai distributor, whom he claimed had purloined his design for a new breed of tire for underground mining. And he had already collected far more of that money than he ever dreamed possible.

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