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

From: Meteoriteshow <meteoriteshow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon May 8 04:56:25 2006
Message-ID: <005e01c6727d$473a0120$0400a8c0_at_IBM>

Hi Mark and All,

Your suggestion is again a purely commercial point of view. I do not say that it is a wrong way but should not be the only one to my
opinion.

I agree that with current infrastructures it is not possible to have any single rock analysed and classified, but is it really
necessary? When not classified, meteorites can be proposed to collectors, simply mentioning that they are not classified. Many
meteorites are sold this way, dealers selling still with profit -which of course is normal!- and collectors being able to add some
nice pieces to their collection at attractive prices.

Once again there are already some rules by the Nom Com, which to me are sufficient but not followed by everybody. That is the point.
Getting meteorites classified takes time and when having an interesting one it is worth getting into that process -pairings for
instance-. Our modern societies always push us to go faster & faster and those meteorites have been waiting on the ground for ages.
Can't we at least wait for a few months when we want to have them classified?

Best wishes,

Frederic Beroud
http://www.meteoriteshow.com
IMCA member # 2491 (http://www.imca.cc/)

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark ford" <markf_at_ssl.gb.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] RE: Self-Proclaimed Pairing Issues




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

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