What PXG Must Prove To Win Its Taylor Made Suit

Golf.com's Michael McCann tries to decipher what PXG must do to prove its patent suit against TaylorMade says this will come down to a battle over "new" and "existing" designs.

The lawsuit referenced by Parsons was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and is embodied in a 277-page complaint authored by attorneys from the law firms Loeb & Loeb and Jennings, Strouss & Salmon. The complaint asserts that TaylorMade has infringed upon multiple patents related to PXG's "revolutionary iron," which purportedly contains "an expanded sweet spot, having an ultra-thin club face, and an elastic polymer material injected in the hollowbodied club head."

PXG contends that the design of TaylorMade's P790 irons copies patent-protected designs for PXG's clubs.

Comments

[Shady Golf]

TaylorMade has done this kind of thing before - see Adams' Velocity Slot in TM's RocketBallz woods. Their response to legal action then was to buy the company. Don't think Parsons is for sale.

[Paul W]

Interesting. TMade gets a lot of grief sometimes, but I own a set of Tour Preferred irons from the late 80s - hollow heads in the 1-4 from the set (they were/are awesome BTW). They followed this up with ICWs, which expanded on the concept.

That's just one example. I can think of many others from Spalding, Bazooka (I think)...the concept itself is not new, curious to follow this......

[GolfFan]

Parsons looking for publicity for his over priced, over done irons.

[ChuckDietzenTNnotIN]

As an observer I look forward to watching it play out. The good thing is most golfers lose nothing with this. TM will remain high priced, PXG UBER-high priced. Of course, the real winners are the lawyers . . . who I don't begrudge.
As Steven T commented on the previous thread,
"Bob Parsons is a lawyer's dream: A client with unlimited funds...who wants to win."

[pasaplayer]

How much lower is TMs price point? I've heard good reports of PXGs, despite their price. It may be worthwhile to give those PXG knockoffs from TM a try.

[Hennie Bogan]

Unless there is some special art needed to fill metal molds with goo, isn't PXG's design for a golf iron obvious (and therefore not patentable)?

[Bill]

PXG...OMG...WTF...HEE...HEE...HEE...ROFLMAO...

[mark]

I like the bad type, PDX

[OWGR Fan]

@pasaplayer the difference in a set of the P790 and PXG Irons is a thousand dollars for a base no frills set. Each PXG wedge goes for $650 for more.

[LA John]

I went over to the TM site for grins, and their iron selector put me into a brand new $1299 set of P790's. I better get them before they go to arbitration. :)

[Greg B.]

@Paul W - The old TM Tour Preferred and ICW irons were the first things I thought of when I saw the details of the lawsuit. Irons that look like musclebacks on the outside but are actually hollow. Whether they were foam-filled I do not know, but surely similar in concept to the PXGs. In the early '90s TM had successor iron designs that were indeed foam-filled.

[Paul W]

Yep that's them Greg B. They were great clubs. Very curious to watch this play out.

[TLB]

PXG is having a Demo Day this Saturday at our club. I suggest they see a D&B report before letting any of our members try them. We had an inter- Club tournament with one of our nearby sister clubs. Out in front of our pro shop, conspectualy placed, was a PXG bag and brand new, full set of clubs, with the owners name tag for all to see, from the other club. Never found out how well he played.

[OWGR Fan]

Now Parsons is suing golf stores that are selling the TM clubs. Rumors are he will also be suing Titleist. Here is a link to the suit against Worldwide Golf Shops (Roger Dunn, Edwin Watts, Golfmart, Vans and others)

https://www.scribd.com/document/359019967/PXG-vs-Worldwide-Golf-Shops?irgwc=1&content=27795&campaign=VigLink&ad_group=900576&keyword=ft500noi&source=impactradius&medium=affiliate

[OWGR Fan]

https://www.scribd.com/document/359019967/PXG-vs-Worldwide-Golf-Shops?irgwc=1&content=27795&campaign=VigLink&ad_group=900576&keyword=ft500noi&source=
impactradius&medium=affiliate

[Dave]

Bob Parsons is a great man but suing everybody will make him look like a jerk.