Court Grants TaylorMade’s Motion for Summary Judgment in Proceedings vs. Dogleg Right

 CARLSBAD, Calif. (June 9, 2011) In a decision by U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Everingham IV in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, on June 6, 2011, the court granted defendant TaylorMade Golf’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement in connection with a patent infringement action by plaintiffs Dogleg Right Partners, LP and Dogleg Right Corporation arising from U.S. Patent Nos. 7,004,852, 7,189,169 and 7,344,450 related to movable weights in golf club heads. The court found that the accused products of TaylorMade do not infringe on any of the asserted claims of the patents-in-suit.

Bill Reimus, TaylorMade’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, said “We are pleased that our position has been vindicated by the Court’s decision. The ruling is consistent with the Court’s previous Markman rulings, which correctly construed the claims in a manner that made clear that TaylorMade’s products are non-infringing. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we expect that others will respect ours. However, if and when infringement is alleged without basis, we will defend ourselves vigorously, as in the present case.”