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Article: Horizons: golf balls--from cover to core.
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- Plastics Engineering
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Have you noticed the preoccupation of many in the plastics industry with golf? Golf outings are an integral part of SPE Sections' activities, and at conferences you will hear as many conversations about golf as about plastics. And as you'll see, golf is also the topic of conversation in business and R&D.
More than 750 U.S. patents on golf balls have been recorded since 2001, as against only 500 for all the rest of sports, including golf clubs and golf in general. For example, only 27 deal with baseball and 30 with fishing gear. When we note total of 1037 patents on injection molding and 561 on polyurethanes, it becomes clear that the total of 750 patents on golf ...