Golf Fashion and Intellectual Property
Patent applications directed to golf shirts don’t come along everyday. Check out this beauty. Would you be a purchaser?….
Read morePatent applications directed to golf shirts don’t come along everyday. Check out this beauty. Would you be a purchaser?….
Read moreForget about a potential long putter ban for a moment and let’s discuss some real golf news. The type that may shake up the industry. Are you familiar with the up and coming golf mogul Onika Tanya Maraj?…. She probably just wants to get out of the entertainment industry and follow her true love, designing golf products….
Read moreAn inventor has received a golf figurine patent just in time for Christmas. Stop laughing; these figurines would sell. Check them out!…. I can easily imagine these beauties for sale in the gift shops of Harbour Town, Pinehurst, or any other destination golf course. Never underestimate the market for golf knickknacks!….
Read moreRemember the rap duo Kris Kross? Of course you do, those were good times. While I am not sure if Callaway is launching a product line to honor the rap duo, they did file a trademark application for….
Read moreYes indeed, _________ filed a trademark application for the mark ___________ for use with “golf game playing equipment in the nature of golf clubs, golf balls, tees, divot tools.” Can’t wait to get my hands on a set of those clubs!….
Read moreClearly the golf marketing hype machine has influenced the title of this post. Check out this beauty of a club head found in USPN 5,700,208, which issued in 1997…. Surprising it never made it to the market….
Read moreGolfers are pretty gullible people but would the perception of larger grooves, even though you know they aren’t any larger, actually make you play better? Would I run any faster if I used a stopwatch that ran at half speed so it seemed like I was running twice as fast, even though I knew the stopwatch simply ticking the seconds off twice as slow? I wouldn’t bet on it…. The engineers at Cobra Golf probably know a little more about sports psychology than I do, OK a lot more, so I read one of their patent applications that published this week with an open mind. The application published as US Pub. No. 20120264537 titled “Golf Club Heads with Enlarged Grooves,” which describes the invention as…. Interesting for sure but I don’t think it would have my confidence so high that I would be zipping balls off any greens. As a true golf geek, one thing about the disclosure caught my attention; the loft examples. Wouldn’t you love to know the last time they made a set that had a 29 degree 5-iron?….
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