UPDATE: According to U.S. District Court documents filed this week, PXG withdrew its motion for a preliminary injunction against TaylorMade and its request was subsequently granted by Tuchi. This eliminates the questions of scheduling, of course, although it more likely means that PXG will focus on the main patent infringement case against TaylorMade rather than trying to prevent the sale of P790 irons. According to Arthur Gollwitzer III, a patent lawyer at Michael Best and Friedrich who recently was part of the legal team that was successful representing golf retailers in a patent infringement case, PXG may have been swinging for the fences with the initial strategy of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. “Obtaining a TRO or even a preliminary injunction is very rare in a patent case,” he wrote in an email to Golf World. “Now that the court denied the TRO, PXG probably has decided that preparing for and conducting a preliminary injunction hearing is not worth the trouble or expense, i.e., this TRO and injunction strategy was a pressure tactic. I suspect PXG knew this was a long shot strategy, like hitting the second shot over the water to the green in Tin Cup, but instead having the good sense to take a drop after it failed.” In other words, PXG is removing the risk of losing a second argument for its position (after already losing at the hearing for the TRO). Since the patent case may be many months before it proceeds to trial, PXG will now have more time to prepare its case in the patent infringement argument. Of course, so will TaylorMade. As of Friday morning, PXG officials had not returned requests from Golf World for comment on their motion to withdraw the request for a preliminary injunction.