{"id":4728,"date":"2009-03-05T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2009-03-05T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T16:30:18","slug":"the-great-carlsbad-golf-ball-battle-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"The Great Carlsbad Golf Ball Battle Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/misc-golf-balls.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/misc-golf-balls.gif','popup','width=408,height=326,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/misc-golf-balls-tm.jpg\" height=\"159\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Misc Golf Balls\" \/><\/a>In the latest round of the great <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> ball battle <strong>Callaway Golf<\/strong> and <strong>Titleist&#8217;s<\/strong> parent company <strong>Acushnet Co<\/strong>. are suing each other over patents related to golf ball design, according to a tory in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/mar\/03\/bn03golf-callaway-suit\/?zIndex=61439\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Callaway alleges that Acushnet&#8217;s latest version of the popular Pro V1 ball infringes on its patents, which Callaway acquired as part of its purchase of Top Flite in 2003. . . .Acushnet filed a separate lawsuit against Callaway claiming the Carlsbad company&#8217;s Tour i and Tour ix premium golf balls infringe on nine Acushnet patents. . . .The dueling lawsuits are part of an lingering battle between the two companies, which are fierce rivals in the golf ball business. Titleist&#8217;s Pro V1 is the market leading premium golf ball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for us to care too much about the lawsuits because to us they&#8217;re just little balls with dimples that grown men spend way too much time playing with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/mar\/03\/bn03golf-callaway-suit\/?zIndex=61439\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest round of the great Carlsbadistan ball battle Callaway Golf and Titleist&#8217;s parent company Acushnet Co. are suing each other over patents related to golf ball design, according to a tory in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Callaway alleges that Acushnet&#8217;s latest version of the popular Pro V1 ball infringes on its patents, which [&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\/4728"}],"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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}