Re: Argentium Silver.

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:31:15 -0800, in rec.crafts.jewelry Jman
<mooglieman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was kind of wondering about that myself.... How could one patent
something that exists in raw materials for everyone to use ?
I suppose it would be like trying to patent a pie crust.

No. Come up with a good pie crust recipe different from others and a
significant improvement on prior ones, and you probably could patent it. What
you couldn't patent would be the individual ingredients, flour, water, sugar,
eggs, etc. In an alloy, you're not claiming patent protection for the
ingredients, but rather the specific mix and proportions thereof, which then
give the alloy properties not found in the individual componants and not
duplicated in "prior art". Think about it. There are LOTS of products out
there that are patented, but are made of known raw materials that are not
themselves patented.
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