{"id":155,"date":"2007-06-14T02:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T09:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-06-14T02:52:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T09:52:38","slug":"callaway-sues-titleist-cobra-over-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Callaway Sues Titleist, Cobra Over Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe we should start golfing. Seems like all the business news in Carlsbad is balls deep. Check this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Callaway Golf Co., the sports equipment-maker that sued a subsidiary of Deerfield-based Fortune Brands Inc. last year for infringing four of its golf ball patents, filed a second lawsuit against its rival, this time over five of its patents for clubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Balls and clubs. . . oh, yeah. One more thing: According to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2007\/06\/11\/ap3809757.html\">Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Last Thursday <strong>Steven C. McCracken<\/strong>, the chief administrative officer, senior executive vice president and secretary of Callaway exercised 40,700 options at $16.56 then sold them for $18.60 for a nice $83,028.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#38;ct=us\/0-0&#38;fd=R&#38;url=http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-wed_fortune_0613jun13,0,5978877.story%3Fcoll%3Dchi-business-hed&#38;cid=1117227752&#38;ei=XaxwRsqWA474rQO20KWjAQ\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe we should start golfing. Seems like all the business news in Carlsbad is balls deep. Check this: Callaway Golf Co., the sports equipment-maker that sued a subsidiary of Deerfield-based Fortune Brands Inc. last year for infringing four of its golf ball patents, filed a second lawsuit against its rival, this time over five of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}