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Premium Products, Inc.
was founded in 1985 to create, manufacture and distribute high quality
products mainly in the field of sporting goods. Four of Mr. Spiegel's
products are actively marketed by Premium Products, Inc. The GROUND ZERO 1
tee, the GROUND ZERO 2 tee and the TOE-TAL tee are distributed for Premium
Products, Inc. by Tuf-Wear®. The GROUND ZERO 1 tee
consists of a one-inch kickoff tee manufactured in the color black and
which was used in the 1999-2000 NFL season by 28 out of 31 teams, and
since then by every NFL team. This tee has been featured in the last eight
Super Bowls and Pro Bowls, in movies including "On Any Given Sunday"
starring Al Pacino, and in advertising including an introductory piece
preliminary to Super Bowl XXXIV featuring Tiger Woods and Kirk and Michael
Douglas. The GROUND ZERO 2 tee is the two-inch version of the GROUND ZERO
1 tee. The TOE-TAL tee is a four-in-one tee including two kickoff tees and
two field goal blocks that are legal in high school play. The GROUND
ZERO® ONSIDE™ tee is being introduced in 2004. This new tee, covered by two U.S. Patents owned by Premium Products, Inc., provides, for the first time, a notch allowing kickers to support the football with its tip on the ground for onside and squib kicks. The tees may be
viewed in web sites including those at WWW.PROKICKER.COM, WWW.WIZARDKICKING.COM
and WWW.WORLDSPORTINGGOODS.COM.
Mr. Spiegel's five panel football invention is marketed by Premium Products, Inc.'s exclusive licensee Rawlings Sporting Goods, Inc. The football is sold in several versions including those made of Horween leather and various composite leather simulating materials. Several sporting goods chains carry the PENTA football since its introduction on July 1, 1999, and a description of one version may be found in the web site for Dick's Sporting Goods at WWW.DSPORTS.COM. Several models of Mr. Spiegel's five-panel football are also sold on the web site at WWW.WIZARDKICKING.COM. Information concerning Rawlings may be found in their web site at WWW.RAWLINGS.COM. INC magazine featured an article about the football in their December, 1999 issue. GROUND ZERO, GROUND ZERO ONSIDE, TOE-TAL and PENTA are registered trademarks owned by Premium Products, Inc. Premium Products, Inc. is the owner of eight Trademarks. A list of these Trademarks may be accessed in the Website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at WWW.USPTO.GOV. Go to the Trademark text and image database and its Boolean search. Enter the following terms: Select database: Both; Term 1: Premium; Field 1: Owner name; Term 2: Virginia; Field 2: Owner address. |
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