Wilson Sporting Goods Overpowers Smaller Company in Patent Infringement Case

A federal judge from the Southern District of Texas has sided with Wilson Sporting Goods in a patent infringement case involving another, smaller sporting goods company that sued Wilson over the patents it owns for chin guard apparatuses for football helmets.   Sportstar Athletics, Inc. owned patents for an "original strap splitter patent” and a "Protective Chin Guard," which were issued in 2014. The inventor of the patents was Paul Schiebl, the president of Sportstar, who licensed the su