[Jewelry making - Article 00077] - Re: [Orchid] Argentium patent and patent application

[Trevor F]

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John,

    Judging from the wording of your post I'd guess that you're no
    novice when it comes to reading patents. In that case I'm a little
    puzzled that you'd interpret the Argentium Silver (AS) patents to
    mean that Peter Johns is going to sue someone if they fuse the metal. 


    As I understand it one describes the unique properties of one's
    invention in order to establish it's legitimacy as a new and
    patentable process or material. Between that and whatever one calls
    the "fair use" principle when it comes to using commercial products
    that are based on applicable patents I respectfully suggest that
    you're worrying aloud for no good reason. 

    For instance, a Bic lighter will (usually) make fire when you flick
    the little lever and I'll bet you there's a patent out there
    somewhere that says so. But no one seriously thinks that they're
    going to get sued for flicking their Bic? Same deal with AS, I'm
    suRe: once you've purchased AS from a licensed AS dealer you're free
    to use all of it's wonderful properties _and_ call the finished
    product Argentium Silver. Whether you can use the official Argentium
    logo or whatever I think that's when you start getting into licensing
    issues. 

    As to the rejection of patent applications that's something I am a
    little familiar with. My father once filed a patent for a machine to
    be used in the extraction of flour gold from river sediment: I don't
    know how many times he got rejection notes from the patent office and
    had to revise the paperwork accordingly. It's my understanding that
    that's just the patent people doing their job, making sure the
    wording is right, that the relevant details are there, superfluous
    material is removed and so forth: you keep doing it until you get it
    right. In other words, that's business as usual when it comes to
    patents. 

    I'm not certain of the details but I'm pretty sure that the
    Argentium people have filed many patents for the various AS alloys
    and their processes. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.in The City of Light
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