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BREAKING: Cobra Golf Files Suit Against Camilo Villegas and TaylorMade-adidas
Last week, Titleist-parent Acushnet filed suit in Massachusetts Superior Court seeking a temporary injunction and monetary compensation against TaylorMade-adidas and Camilo Villegas to prevent both parties from discussing their newly-announced partnership for 2011 and beyond. When the news broke,...
Oddities in Titleist Parent Suit Against TaylorMade & Villegas
Earlier in the week, rumors that began at golf equipment forum Hacker's Paradise were confirmed that current Cobra and Titleist endorser Camilo Villegas would make the switch to TaylorMade-adidas (TMAG) in 2011. TaylorMade-adidas made the announcement via a press release on August 3, which...
TaylorMade on Its Edge Over Nike & Advice for Puma Golf
A month ago today, Puma Golf announced that it was purchasing the Cobra Golf brand from Acushnet and Fortune Brands. It was Puma's move to make a foray into the equipment manufacturing arena. After making quite a splash with its unique fashions, Puma will likely seek to do the same thing with its...
USGA's Dick Rugge On The Grooves Hullabaloo
In recent days, there has been some serious media coverage paid to the story emanating out of the Callaway camp about the USGA's rejection of a submission from the company for a set of irons for Phil Mickelson. Golfweek's Adam Schupak reported that USGA Senior Technical Director Dick Rugge went...
Let's Try This Again: Callaway-Titleist ProV1 Suit Will Be Retried
This story is day or so old, but I just could not get around to it with me becoming a Y.E.S. Man. Remember that lawsuit that Callaway filed and won about patents they bought from Top Flite pertaining to the ProV1 technology? And how the courts sided with Callaway and filed an injunction forcing...
Pics of New Titleist Irons - Conforming to New USGA Grooves Regs
Last week, the good folks at Titleist contacted a bunch of bloggers and writers to provide us with a sneak preview of some of their new iron lines coming out toward the end of this year. There are four iron models. They are AP1, AP2, CB, and MB. Three of the lines are new - AP1, CB, and MB. ...
Reading Into Commissioner Finchem's Grooves Decision Today
On its surface, it would seem that the decision today by PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem to not delay implementation of the new grooves Conditions of Competition is cut and dry. Upon further inspection, though, the entire process really is intriguing. It's not completely certain how this whole...
Showdown at the Ponte Vedra Beach Corral
via www.wyattearpfaqs.com The PGA Tour has called a press conference for tomorrow morning after the Policy Board meeting. Sometimes, interesting things come out of these meetings. I guarantee you something interesting will come out of this one. One way or another, there will be fireworks.
If You Ever Drew an Alignment Line on Your Ball, You Might Get Sued
Every now and again, I head over to David Dawsey's golfing intellectual property blog. He is a lawyer by trade and helps small golf companies in securing patents and protecting the inventions. His blog looks at patent filings in the golf industry and the upcoming technologies that golf companies...
Good God! Get Your Pro V1s NOW!
In September, Callaway won a lawsuit against Acushnet - the parent company of Titleist - for patent infringement related to technology and process used to create the current generation of Pro V1 ball. Callaway decided to take things a step further, and they won. The U.S. District Court in...
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