PatentMarvel Version 2.0; If You Do Much Work With Patents This Tool Will Save You Some Time

Gallagher & Dawsey Co. LPA is pleased to announce the launch of version 2.0 of our PatentMarvel website. In the past four years PatentMarvel has become a popular free online patent tool for U.S. patent lawyers and inventors to create free clean PDF copies of U.S. patents and published applications. Version 2.0 takes several steps forward and includes numerous tools developed by our intellectual property lawyers to ease the lives of US patent attorneys, inventors, and intellectual property owners. It includes a Patent Term Calculator, a Patent Claim Chart Generator, and a Patent Claim Tree Generator. Additionally, a unique toolbar appears at the top of the screen while a user is viewing a PDF that allows the user to quickly search the assignment records and view the maintenance payments via the bibliographic records link. We invite you to spend some time on the site and click on the various tools; you may be surprised by what you find….

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Day 1 – Patented Putting Strokes; Simply Put a Little Shoulder Into Your Stroke

In the past I have covered a few patented putting methods/strokes (here, here, here, and here) and these seem to be popular posts among the readers. Therefore I have decided to make a week of it. The first method of putting patent for the week is USPN 6,595,867, which claims…. This method gives new meaning to the term “long putter.”…. OK, so where can I get a putter shaft that is six feet long? I wonder which Tour player would be first to give this method a try….. Dave Dawsey – Monitoring Patented Putting Strokes

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Golf Equipment Purists Cover Your Eyes

What is a golf equipment “purist” now days anyway? In 1990 it was someone that would never dream of hitting a metal wood, today they are. In the early 2000’s it was someone that would never dream of hitting a 460 cc driver, today they are. Then it was square heads, and so on, and so on, … Attitudes change when technology leaves you behind (or someone on Tour puts a club in play). I say this to prepare you for the following club head design. Think about it a little bit and read what the application has to say about the technology before you race to post “I just puked in my mouth” on one of the golf forums. OK, are you prepared?…. Did you ever think a driver would have a diffuser, a vane, and a Kammback feature? Sure, it isn’t much on the eyes but if it reliably provided the longest drive of the group in the fairway then I would game it. Dave Dawsey – The Golf Attorney

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Who Invented the Long Putter?

Interesting question. Rest assured that it was not Johnny Miller, this guy (see comments section), or this guy (although I would like to see the picture of him with a parrot on his shoulder). The earliest patent I could locate on a belly putter was filed in 1961 and issued in 1965 to Richard T. Parmley as USPN 3188086 titled “Body-Pivot Golf Putter.”…. If only he could have collected a percentage of the winnings! Good job Richard, you were decades ahead of most golfers…. Dave Dawsey – Monitoring Belly Putter Inventions

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Hub and Spoke Driver Design

Check out the driver disclosed in a patent application that published this week…. The drawings come from US Pub. No. 20110275446 titled “Wood-Type Golf Clubs with Tubing and Weights,” which describes the invention as…. Can you guess which golf company came up with this unique design?….

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Extreme Adjustability

I must be about the only golfer that is not over-the-moon about adjustability. Frankly I suspect the majority of golfers would be most likely to tinker with adjusting their putters, yet the putter seems to be the one club that manufacturers are leaving alone. Sure, adjustability is cool but it seems like it is always accompanied by a sacrifice, whether it be sound, feel, or weight distribution. So, what is the next step in adjustability? Perhaps modularity. An Acushnet patent application recently published as US Pub. No. 20110256953 titled “Modular Golf Club.” The application describes the invention as…. I have a hard time imagining one of these club designs with a Titleist badge on it. Dave Dawsey – Monitoring Golf Inventions

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