[Jewelry making - Article 00633] - Re: [Orchid] When your work gets ripped....

[John Donivan]

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    I made a very unique and elegant model of a solitaire, and sold
    several units of it to a store I had dealings with. We drifted apart,
    as happens. A few years later, I opened the San Francisco Chronicle
    (the main paper here). On page 2, prominently displayed, was my ring,
    in an ad for a store I knew of, but had never dealt with. The same ad
    ran for about 1 1/2 years, on and off - it's a nice ring. The ring is
    simple, but distinctive - there's really no chance that anybody else
    designed it on their own, and it was EXACTLY the same. I considered
    my options, of course. I could hire a lawyer, track down the
    perpetrators - the store is only a vendor, not the manufacturer -
    spend 6 months in court, and what would I gain? Pride? It would be
    different if it was the whole line, or they were rubbing my nose in
    it, but the store, I believe, simply bought the ring from a shop in
    good faith. Plus, this is local, and everybody knows everybody - good
    faith is priceless. Sure, I could maybe have made a few thousand
    dollars - probably less, but the effort, and the bad feelings, would
    not have been worth it, to me. 

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