[gthtjtkt]

I think you missed the part where they implied these lawsuits are often completely without merit. It's abuse of the parent system to stifle competition, and we're supposed to believe business owners just shrug it off after they're bullied into bankruptcy?

> “We weren’t infringing. But we couldn’t afford to fight the case,” he says. Instead, his company settled the 2015 claims with Acushnet by agreeing to get out of the golf-ball business altogether

[nradov]

If the cases were settled out of court then we have no reliable way to determine whether they had merit. It's just speculation by the writer and interviewees.

[timv]

The writer wants us to simultaneously believe that the cases were without merit, but were "a legitimate business tactic".

A writer can try to be an objective observer, or they can pick a side, but trying to pick both sides is just confusing.