⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Federal Circuit hears TaylorMade Golf versus Costco. TaylorMade accuses Costco of selling golf clubs that infringe its patents. Years earlier, the companies had entered into supplier agreements with arbitration clauses. Costco invokes those old contracts to seek arbitration of the later patent dispute. Arbitration means resolving an agreed dispute before an arbitrator rather than a court. The district court refused to compel arbitration, and Costco appealed. Section sixteen of the Federal Arbitration Act allows immediate appeals from orders refusing arbitration, before the lawsuit is finished. But the parties disagree about which appeals court has the legal authority, or jurisdiction, to hear this appeal: the Federal Circuit or the Ninth Circuit. Ramsey Al-Salam represents Costco. He will ask the court to enforce the arbitration agreements.

Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. v. Costco Wholesale Corporation (No. 25-1510) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, argued October 8, 2026.