Want to know the name of the next Callaway Golf club before it gets released?
Patents and Trademarks are extremely time consuming and very expensive, but they are also one of the best resources for getting a glimpse into the future of the golf industry. They give you a sneak peek into the future and let you see what might come out before it even hits the market. Kind of like taking a ride in the ol’ AMC Delorean from the classic “Back To The Future”.
Trick of the Trade
When you are hired to design a golf club one of your first tasks is to search through thousands of patents and trademarks to make 100% sure you are not infringing on anyone else’s ideas or intellectual property. Failing to do so can cost you millions down the road. That is usually where a Patent Attorney comes in. Their brains are built for one thing and one thing only, that’s being able to read “Patent Lingo”. And believe me this is not a lingo that you want to learn, it will have your head spinning in no time flat. But…good thing is you don’t need to anymore. Computers have replaced paper for the most part and now anyone can search through them online at the United States Patent and Trademark Office website.
A Peek In To Future of the Golf Industry
Here are some of the trademarks filed by the biggest golf companies in the US. Included are some names you might already recognize but there are some others that will surely hear about in the future.
Callaway Golf:
1 X-20 TOUR
2 HOGGED-OUT HOSEL
3 MARXMAN
4 BLACK SERIES
5 CLUB R
6 X-FORGED
7 CALLAWAY GOLF CONSUMER EXCHANGE
8 FUSION
9 FORGED X
10 X-20
11 MACK DADDY
12 FT-I
13 STRONOMIC
14 X SERIES
15 PROJECT 6K
16 PROJECT SHADOW
17 PROJECT 5K
18 FT-9
19 FT-7
20 BLACK SWIRL
21 HXH
22 BIG BERTHA ECLIPSE
23 TRI-LINE
24 WORLD’S STRAIGHTEST DRIVER
25 CONCEPT 5K
26 CONSUMER EXCHANGE
27 Orange Sole of Club
28 HYPER X
29 Offset Parenthesis
30 TOP-FLITE D2
31 EXECUTIVE
32 A GAME FOR LIFE
33 TETRA
34 BLACK & WHITE.
35 BLACK & WHITE
36 TOUR EDITION
37 NOTCH BACK
38 ITEC
Karsten:
1 PING RAPTURE
2 G30
3 G20
4 CRAZ-E
5 I30
6 I10
7 CRAZ-E ONE
8 S58
9 G10
10 VARDON
Nike:
1 Yellow Sole of Club
2 TRANSFORMER
3 BODY KNOWLEDGE
Taylor Made:
1 Red Putter Face
2 MONZA
3 I AM A GOLFER
4 WE ARE GOLFERS
5 TITALLIUM
Acushnet:
1 RESHAPE YOUR GAME
2 T
Info by David Dawsey
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