[Jewelry making - Article 00371] - Re: [Orchid] CZ-Synthetic

[James White]

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>         A synthetic gem does not need to have a natural counterpart,
>     it just needs to be man-made. Just ask any YAG lover at Bell Labs. 

    Excellently presented and well argued Steve Green...until 

>         synthetic crystals that came as a result of these needs are
>     certainly inventions and copyrighted by their inventors. However
>     if 

    You can patent a... er... synthetic material with no known natural
    counterpart and you can patent a novel-and-non-obvious process for
    making any synthetic material (Garnet and Diamond making processes,
    among others, were patent by General Electric's "Diamond Fever Gang"
    starting in the mid 50's). You cannot patent a natural material or
    copyright it and you can't really even enforce a copyright on written
    instructions for producing a synthetic material because, in general,
    the courts would find no "expression" there, merely a dry listing of
    steps (recipe's get virtually no protection via copyright except as
    collections though you are free to slap a Copyright notice on a
    recipe and hope readers will honor it though there is little legal
    requirement they do). GE's very successful Diamond and Garnet making
    processes and equipment patents are now all expired so anyone is
    free to follow the processes and make their own just as anyone is
    free to make nylon because its patent expired. 

    What amazes me, of course, is that anyone would ever by CZ "jewelry"
    in the first place. 

James E. White


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