It wasn't "Fords patents"....Harry Ferguson held the patent rights. (as he was the inventor of the three point hitch known as "The Ferguson System") Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson had a (somewhat shakey) "handshake agreement" as to the use of the patented hitch and it's use on the N series Fords. Once Fords son took over the "family business", he weaseled out of honoring the agreement. Ferguson sued (and won) but before the court settled the suit, the patents had run out.
Ferguson's hitch appeared on prototype tractors as early as 1929, and was a standard feature on the Ferguson-Brown tractor quite some time before it showed up on the 9N.
It can be argued that Ferguson wouldn't have become "the name" in the tractor industry, as well as the N series Ford wouldn't have sold very well at all without Fergusons hitch.
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