[Jewelry making - Article 00342] - Re: [Orchid] Argentium patent and patent application

[Daniel Wade]

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    Interesting string here. So do you think if stern get's the
    licensing right's to make sheet and wire and such, pays the inventor
    his cut, and then say someone like rio etc sells it to you, does the
    patent still effect the end user as far as anything you do except
    say making some diffusion bonded mokume. 

    Maybe those lurkers here of the two formentioned could advise us as
    to how their product is to be used and not used. I would think that
    if someone sold something and you did something with it and got sued
    for using it in a certain manner, that they would be liable in the
    end for not disclosing this info. 

    Just a thought. 

    It's a tricky thing this patent stuff. I feel like I could get sued
    sometimes if I even look at something the wrong way these days. I
    recently saw someone with a pair of pliers for a specific job that
    had a patent number on them. I know of someone who let me borrow his
    contraption he made 10 years ago and I don't see his name on it. He
    never thought of patenting it... but someone did. So do I think its
    right? 

    I won't say. You show a technique somewhere to someone or say
    something about this or that and next year it's in someones new book
    or at a show as a lecture,but do we just run around in secret. 

    I still question this. Next year someone will trademark or
    copyright the word jewelry and we will all be out of luck. It's just
    my opinion...... but maybe it's just "business". 

Daniel Wade
Infinities
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