A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
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Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
#2This shows everything wrong with IP today. There should be no place for legal bullying. Especially when it's as simple as crushing competitors under litigation costs.
Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
#3Ironically, anti-competitive moves like this are only going to accelerate the game of golf's steady decline[0]. I get needing to protect your market as a large player, but when you are the main player and your product is too expensive to buy and the perception is growing that the sport you specialize in is a waste of time and money, what good does it do to push out someone making a cheaper product that may allow beginning players with smaller budgets to enter the game?
[0]http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-death-of-golf-201506...
Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
#4I don't understand how
"“We laughed when we got the lawsuit. We knew we made it.”"
and
"his company settled the 2015 claims with Acushnet by agreeing to get out of the golf-ball business altogether; it received no payment from Acushnet, nor did it pay."
are compatible statements.
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#5I don't understand how "“We laughed when we got the lawsuit. We knew we made it.”" and "his company settled the 2015 claims with Acushnet by agreeing to get out of the golf-ball business altogether; it received no payment from Acushnet, nor did it pay." are compatible statements.
I feel like there was a smile that turned into a frown between those two statements as they realized what it meant
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#6This shows everything wrong with IP today. There should be no place for legal bullying. Especially when it's as simple as crushing competitors under litigation costs.
Especially the cynical practice of filing known-baseless patent suits as described in the article. That behavior should get the company heavily fined, and land the responsible corporate actors in prison.
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#7I would have appreciated some more information about these patents. Like instead of telling me the lawsuit is all hot air, show me? I feel they deliberately omitted any facts which might allow me to form any opinion other than the one I'm supposed to have. (I'm happy to believe the lawsuit is bullshit, but not based on nothing but say so.)
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#8> David Dawsey, a golf intellectual-property expert
Talk about carving a niche for yourself.
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#9> Companies with deep pockets lock down the market by making it too expensive for competitors to operate and to offer lower-priced yet quality products. It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach.
Who the hell wrote this article, the CEO of Acushnet?
"Don't get the wrong idea, small businesses love being sued over frivolous patents they never infringed upon!"
Re: A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
#10I would have appreciated some more information about these patents. Like instead of telling me the lawsuit is all hot air, show me? I feel they deliberately omitted any facts which might allow me to form any opinion other than the one I'm supposed to have. (I'm happy to believe the lawsuit is bullshit, but not based on nothing but say so.)
The following patent numbers cited in this[1]:
6994638
8123632
8444507
9320944
8025593
8257201
7331878
6358161
7887439
7641572
7163472
[1] http://golf-patents.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170317-...