[meteorite-list] RE: Self-Proclaimed Pairing Issues

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon May 8 04:19:27 2006
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B315092C7_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Hi,

This pairing argument/debate is one that has been going for years and
years, and will most probably continue way beyond all of us.

To my way of thinking It will never be solved unless every single rock
that is found is analysed by a competent body and given a serial
numbered cert, that is clearly not going to happen unless someone opens
a massive meteor lab complex and makes a commercial charge for
classification, This would also require a complete overhaul of the
classification process, and probably wouldn't be practical.

So by way of a constructive suggestion, why don't dealers just trademark
their classifications?

It would work like this:

Dealer gets the rock classified, a number or name gets issued by the Nom
Com et al. Then the dealer registers it as a trademark, so anyone who
sells the material under that name (or makes a claim that it is the
same) would then be breaking the law, as they are trading under someone
else's trademark simple. - A commercial trademark belongs to the person
who registers it, not the person who names it.

Just a thought...

Mark Ford
Received on Mon 08 May 2006 04:21:41 AM PDT