EverTee design was when the idea was and designed. We could never afford to patent. This is because we thought that a great many pegs would have to be sold to recoup such an investment amounting to several hundred thousand dollars and up depending on the patent's scope.

The other day I read about Lars Eriksson, who has patented a spring-loaded peg-top. After a little research was done in 2006/06. The patent is now sold to an Italian company.

The article from the E24 makes Lars two sensible remarks (Inventions http://www.e24.se/ ... , accessed 2009-04-26):
- Then, I do not really know what happened to the tee, said Lars Eriksson. He points out that just innovations in consumer products is tricky.
- It may be the best product but it requires a lot of marketing and still do not know if it gets any of it. The following figure is taken from the article:

Override peg-top

I wonder if the patent on this tee is contrary to Everlast Tees designs. Protection of the design was applied in 2005/05 and was granted 2005/11.

A patent must be new to everyone and a novelty. I'm not going to bother me and dig into this. It would be interesting to look at the claims of the "non-locking peg." EverTee is evighetspeg which is also resilient but with the help of the line joining the parts. In my opinion, EverTee be known as "prior art" for the spring-loaded golf tee which should rescind this patent.

My tee EverTee

I'm no expert on this. What do you think? Everlast Tees designs found in the PRV database with the application number 05-0354 and the registration number 78 725 and is become valid until 2010/05.