PING Goes for Gold, I Mean Pink
In my April 9th post titled “No Pink Grip for You! (maybe… someday)” I wondered why Karsten (aka PING) had not yet attempted to grab some coverage associated with pink on club heads. I speculated that one reason may be a trademark registration owned by Frankly Consulting, the company formed by former USGA Technical Director Frank Thomas, directed to the Original Pink Frankly Frog Putter. The trademark registration describes the mark as:
The color(s) pink is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of the color pink applied to the head of a golf putter. The broken lines are used to show the position of the mark on the goods and are not part of the mark.
Well, nine days later Karsten went for it and filed a trademark application seeking to protect a club head with a pink crown.
To hedge their bet, they also filed a second trademark application seeking to protect a club head with a pink crown in combination with a pink shaft.
Check out THIS picture and see if you can spot the abnormality. That’s right, Bubba’s bi-matrix shaft is not pink all the way down to the club head. Perhaps the 5000 limited edition pink drivers will have a different shaft.
Do you think Karsten should be allowed to register these trademarks?
David Dawsey – A Golf Trademark Attorney
PS – To update an old (i.e. probably outdated) post about BubbaGolf, in the past month Bubba has filed several new trademark applications (here, here).