Callaway v. Titleist Wars, Vol. 93

David Dawsey reports on his blog that Callaway and Titleist have settled a patent infringement suit related to drivers. It's great to see that these two are finally working out their differences and this should pave the way for that messy Pro V-1 entanglement to...wait, I'm sorry, what was that?

Oh...I spoke too soon. This went out to select scribblers today from Callaway:

Attached is a copy of an advertisement that will appear in select media outlets starting on Thursday, November 20, 2008.

The ad highlights our position regarding Callaway Golf’s heritage of technological innovation and our rigorous defense of our patents and technologies.

Thank you.

Michèle Szynal
Vice President, Public Relations
Callaway Golf

Well, Spalding's patents and technologies!

The ad, followed by the a close-up of the text.

 

If only they'd put all of this creative energy into original ideas like a classic course ball...now that would be good for golfers!

Comments

[86general]

"Classic course ball." Now yer talkin'. But Wally will NEVER ask his crack R&D staff to tackle that one.

[Huh]

Funny how Callaway talks about original ideas in golf ball designs when they are using Top Flite patents for their own tour level multi-layer golf balls. Just because you buy a company that doesn't mean the patents that come along with the company then become their original ideas.

Guess Callaway forgets that they were sued by Bridgestone and most recently Taylor Made (actually Maxfli patents that TM owns) for golf ball patent infringement. That and at one time they licensed multi layer ball technology from Titleist when the Rule 35 and CTU golf balls were out.

Pot meet Kettle.