Interesting Use of Design Patenting for Putter Surface Treatments – Congratulations Cleveland Golf
Last week USPN D543,599 titled “Top of Golf Putter” issued to Cleveland Golf related to the Never Compromise brand of putters. The patent illustrates a unique design patent strategy. Many people seem to be surprised that one goal of a design patent should be to obtain as broad of patent protection as possible. Often people mistakenly only think of the “breadth” of a patent with respect to utility patents. This is why you will often see several design patents directed to various aspects of a single club… Congratulations Cleveland Golf, great strategy! So, which design patent do you think is the most broad? USPN D543,599 or USPN D543,598?…
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