Legal Opinion
United States Golf Association v. St. Andrews Systems, Data-Max, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided November 28, 1984No. 83-5629PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents two interesting questions in the law of intellectual property. It arises from a lawsuit brought by appellant, the United States Golf Association (“U.S.G.A.”), the governing body of amateur golf in the United States. The U.S.G.A. has developed a system for deriving the “handicaps” of amateur golfers, the core of which is a mathematical formula. Appellee Data-Max, Inc., d/b/a St. Andrews Systems, markets small computers that are programmed to calculate a golfer’s handicap based on the U.S.G.A. formula. The U.S.G.A. brought this suit…
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