Roger:

Yes I took a 10 second look. been out all day so quite tired... Went to
DT Toronto - The Royal Ontario Museum. We went to see geological
displays but caught a display of European designed furniture as well.
Incredible...

To business..
The design patents might be relevant if you wanted to lock up a
particular pattern -- or even take over "round beads" and stake them as
your own. (The latter might be tough though... )

Maybe as the design on a bowl -- a specific pattern. Not sure how we
could lay claim to a particular sequence of beads and coves and finials
etc, or a particular geometric form for a bowl. That is what I was
thinking of...


Roger wrote:
Design patents might well be relevant.
See http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/definition.html

Roger

Will wrote:

Patents are not relevant here. Must go. Can say more later if you wish.

Sorry...



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Will
Occasional Techno-geek