These are all what the law calls fact questions.

这些都是法律所说的事实问题。

And the thing is, almost every copyright case that comes out is a fact question.

事实是，几乎所有出现的版权案件都是事实问题。

Almost every case is that middle section, that fact question.

几乎每个案例都是中间部分，即事实问题。

And the thing about fact questions, they don't get resolved until the end of that process.

关于事实问题，直到该流程结束时它们才会得到解决。

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

2005 年，IBM公司在一份法院报告中声称：尽管怀疑这种专利授权的法律基础，但它已经申请了300 多份商业方法专利。

Stephen Smith then asked a question, adopting a certain recklessness of manner and tone to hide, if possible, the fact that the subject was a much greater one to him than his friend had ever supposed.

斯蒂芬·史密斯然后问了一个问题，采取了某种鲁莽的态度和语气，如果可能的话，以掩盖这一事实，即这个话题对他来说比他的朋友想象的要重要得多。

And the hard part about fact questions is they're notoriously hard to resolve at an early stage in the case, because when you think about a life span of a lawsuit, it starts out as a cease and desist letter.

关于事实问题的难点在于， 众所周知，在案件的早期阶段， 它们很难解决，因为当你考虑诉讼的生命周期时， 它开始时是一封停止和终止信。