Celebrating the US Open with Patents

In celebration of the US Open Tennis Tournament in Flushing NY, we present a variety of tennis patents:

• Howard Head, 2017 Inductee, National Inventors Hall of Fame
• In case you were wondering were the extra tennis balls go
• Smash hits in tennis patents from KASS
• Propulsion device for tennis balls and like spherical objects
• Tennis bag with ball retrieving and dispensing unit
• Automated tennis line calling system

Honestly, tennis IP is pretty dry.  But if patent examining were easy, everyone would do it.

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