Patent ID: 7157545

Claim:
A golf ball comprising at least one thermoplastic, thermoset, castable, or millable material formed from a composition comprising at least one telechelic polycarbonate copolymer having a generic structure of: where R 1 and R 2 are independently chosen from hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alicyclic, cycloalkyl, and alkoxy groups; R 3 is chosen from linear, branched, cyclic, aliphatic, alicyclic, araliphatic, and aromatic moieties having about 4–40 carbon atoms, and alkoxy moieties having about 2–20 carbon atoms; R 4 is chosen from linear, branched, cyclic, aliphatic, alicyclic, araliphatic, and aromatic moieties having about 2–20 carbon atoms, and organic moieties having about 2–4 linear carbon atoms in the main chain with or without one or more pendant carbon groups; x is 2–50; and y is the same or different numbers chosen from 0, 1, and 2.