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 Titleist
vant i retten over Callaway
06.04 Titleist vant over Callaway:
Uenighet rundt patent på
golfballer
Det har lenge vært juristmat når det gjelder rettigheter til patenter i
forbindelse med produksjon av golfballer. Callaway og Titleist har hatt en tvist
gående over lengre tid.
Her er hele pressemeldingen:
TITLEIST WINS DECISION IN PRO V1 PATENT DISPUTE WITH CALLAWAY
Acushnet Company, the golf business of Fortune Brands, Inc. and manufacturer of
Titleist, the #1 ball in golf, announced that it won a jury verdict in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Delaware in its golf ball patent dispute with
Callaway Golf Co. Callaway asserted that previous generation Titleist Pro V1
golf balls had infringed on four patents originally owned by Spalding and
subsequently purchased by Callaway Golf. The jury agreed with Acushnet’s
position that the patents in question are invalid.
“We are extremely pleased with the court’s decision, and we hope that this
finally brings this long standing dispute to a close,” said Joe Nauman,
Executive Vice President, Corporate and Legal, Acushnet Company. “We have
explained throughout this process that Acushnet independently developed the
technology in question. The Titleist Pro V1 family utilises technology from 74
Acushnet patents and was first introduced to our PGA TOUR players in October
2000, well before any of the Spalding patents were issued in 2001 and 2003. We
appreciate the jury’s careful consideration of the facts and the time they
devoted to these proceedings. This verdict affirms our view that all claims in
these patents are invalid – just as the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) has
repeatedly found.”
In January 2006, before Callaway filed this litigation, Acushnet petitioned the
PTO to re-examine the four patents in the suit. Since then, the PTO has
repeatedly found that all claims of all four patents are invalid. During this
process, seven separate PTO examiners were involved in evaluating the validity
of these patents and all seven concluded that they are invalid.
Acushnet Company has a comprehensive product and process Research and
Development staff and the Pro V1 golf ball franchise represents the accumulation
of technology developed by Acushnet over a 20-year period. As the worldwide golf
ball performance and technology leader, Acushnet currently holds over 715 of the
nearly 2,000 active patents related to golf balls – more than any other
manufacturer.
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