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The Hybrid Recognition Test of the Day….. Can You Identify This Hybrid?

If You Can Identify This Set of Irons Then You Know Your Clubs!

How Well Do You Know Wedges?

The Best and Worst Golf Club Names Filed with the USPTO so far in 2008

A First on the Golf-Patents Blog! Can You Identify this Chipper from the Design Patent Drawings?

Now, A Golf Club Patent Statistic That is Hard to Believe (if I had not come up with it myself)

Interesting Patent for Iron Faces Issues to Pixl Golf… Are They Still in Business?

Does Your Golf Bag Need Some Bling? These Clubs May Be the Answer

Think You Could Buy a Real Cleveland Wedge for $30? It Would be Nice, But Get Real! Cleveland Golf Sues an Alleged Counterfeiter

Which Two Masters Champions Have Been Issued Utility Patents since 1976?

How Well Do You Know Irons?

The Continued Quest to Prevent Hosel Rockets

Clubs That I Want for My Collection

If You Can’t Identify This Golf Club Head From the Design Patent… Then Order More Golf Magazines

Last Week I Posted About a Fluid-Filled Bladder Golf Club Patent Application… This Week a Patent Issues on a Remarkably Similar Design… Turns Out That Smart Inventors Do Think Alike

Can You Identify These Irons? (from a major manufacturer, yet I bet you can’t identify them)

A Post About Fluid-Filled Bladders

Which Top 5 Golfer is an Inventor on a Golf Club Patent? And Who Owns the Patent?

Defendant King Sports Responds to Callaway’s Allegations

If You Love Technology and Golf, Then These Irons May be for You

Clone Club Makers Are Coming Under Fire Again… Nike Accuses Several Defendants of Infringing 15 Design Patents

If You Can Identify This Iron Then I Bet You Are a Future Golf Equipment Geek

If You Can’t Identify the Maker of These Irons from the Design Patent Drawings… Order More Golf Magazines

Have You Ever Thought About Adding Volcanic Rock Fibers to Your Clubs? Don’t Worry, Nike Has Thought About it for You

Toss Out Your Trusted Titleist Vokey Wedge, Burn That Beautiful Old Cleveland Wedge That You Know Better Than Your Family Members… The Wedge of the Future has Been Patented

Looks Like TaylorMade and Callaway Will Settle Their Golf Club Patent Infringement Battle

There is No Way You Can Identify This Iron?

Five Design Patents Issue on Popular Hybrid Iron Set… Can You Identify This Set of Golf Clubs?

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

It’s a Groove Thing… TaylorMade Granted Interesting Patent on Variable Groove / Scoreline Width

Crazy Club of the Week; Is It a Driver or a Putter?

The First Mention of This Club Manufacturer on the Golf-Patents Blog… Can You Identify These Irons? Two Challenges in One Post!

A Look at Lie Adjustability

Club Head Adjustability Patents… Did the Club Manufacturers Predict the Recently Proposed USGA Rule Changes Years in Advance?

The Easing of Golf Club Head Adjustability Requirements? I Can’t Wait to See What the Club Makers Come Up With… Plus a Look at Loft Adjustability

Huge Antique Golf Club Auction and Exhibition in NYC

Odd Club of the Week – Taking Square to the Wedge

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

Callaway Sues Taylor Made Twice In The Past 5 Days!

Taking Ridiculous Golf Inventions to a New Level… What Every Golfer Needs for Their Bathroom

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

They Invited Me Back… The IP Golf Guy was a Guest on Tee Time Radio Program

Even I Could Produce Lots of Spin with this Wedge

Shanks… Hosel Rockets… No Matter What You Call Them, We Have All Had Them; Inventors Have Been Designing Clubs to Prevent Hosel Rockets Since 1921

How Good are You with the Foot Wedge? Perhaps this Invention will Help

Can You Identify This Wedge? Finally… A Wedge Design Patent

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

The Future of Irons? Three Rounded Modules and an Oblong Island... What

Bridgestone Has Been Busy; Last Week They Had 1 Patent Issue and 9 Applications Publish!

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

A Potential New Product for Up and Coming Club Manufacturer?

What’s Up With Taylor Made’s Inverted Cone Technology?

Another Famous Instructor and Inventor, David Leadbetter

New Callaway Commercial Featuring Roger Cleveland (formerly of Cleveland Golf)

The IP Golf Guy was a Guest on Tee Time Radio Program

Patents by Dave Pelz – Phil Mickelson’s Short-Game Coach

Fascinating IP of the Week: The Future of Sand Wedges… Probably Not

USGA Senior Technical Director, Dick Rugge, as Inventor

Why it Pays to Put Patent Numbers on Your Golf Products

An Interesting Wedge Utility Patent Issues… Can You Identify the Brand?

A Blast from the Past… Can You Identify The Manufacturer of this Hybrid Set?

IP Grab of the Week – Is the National Chiao Tung University Getting Into the Golf Business?

Is Nike In Trouble for Theft of Golf Club Design? The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Sends Case Back to the District Court

Can You Identify This Golf Club Head? Test Your Knowledge of Iron Designs

Patent of the Week – Adjustable Weighted Nike SlingShot Irons (will they make it to market?)

Fascinating IP of the Week – A Forged Advanced Perimeter Weighted Iron With Resilient Weight Insert

Golf Patent Attorney Humor

Think Adjustable Club Head Weighting Systems are New? Think Again

Great Interviews with Former USGA Tech Director Frank Thomas at EagleParBirdie Blog

Which Two Masters Champions Have Been Issued Utility Patents since 1976?

New Golf CLUB Product Names; A Look at Golf CLUB Trademark Applications Filed in 2006

2006 Golf Club Published Patent Applications of the CLUB Giants… the rest of the story

Who Plans to Dominate the Golf Club Market? 2006 Patent Statistics for the Club Giants

Great Patenting Week for PING; 2 Interesting Golf Club Head Utility Patents

US Club Designers Beware: Nelson Precision Casting is Positioning Itself to be the Only Club Manufacturer

USGA Proposed Rule Changes and Golf Club Groove Patents

Great Patenting Week for Acushnet; 2 Golf Club Utility Patents, 1 Golf Club Design Patent, and 1 Golf Ball Utility Patent

Patent of the Week: Another Pat on the Back for Nelson Precision Casting; Patenting Club Head Manufacturing Methods

Test Your Knowledge of Golf Club Designs

What a Week for Callaway Golf – 2 in a Playoff, 2 Golf Ball Patents, 1 Golf Club Patent

Published App of the Week: Iron Set with Material Milled from Top

Fascinating IP of the Week

IP Grab of the Week: Low Center of Gravity Club Head

Patent of the Week: Watch Out if You Are Varying Striking Surface Hardness

IP Grab of the Week: Improved Club Sole for Enhanced Elastic Deformation

Design Patents Underutilized for Protecting Club Head Design

IP Grab of the Week - Manufacturing Method for a Composite Striking Plate of a Golf Club Head

Published App of the Week – Acushnet’s Explosion Welding Multi-Material Club Face