...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5318897 | Monoclonal antibody and antibody components elicited to a polypeptide antigen ground state What is disclosed is a catalytic monoclonal antibody able to cleave a polypeptide and in particular, a catalytic monoclonal antibody elicited by a ground state antigen is disclosed. Antigens include, among others, the polypeptide, a derivative of the poly... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5310687 | Luminescent metal chelate labels and means for detection A chemical moiety is disclosed which comprises a chemical, biochemical, or biological substance attached to one or more electrochemiluminescent organometallic compounds. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the substance is attached to one or more r... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5247243 | Method and apparatus for conducting electrochemiluminescent measurements A method and apparatus for triggering and measuring electrochemiluminescent phenomena using a voltage waveform applied at the voltammetric working electrode which improves the precision and accuracy of measurements. This waveform has a decreasing scan rat... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5238808 | Luminescent metal chelate labels and means for detection A chemical moiety is disclosed which comprises a chemical, biochemical, or biological substance attached to one or more electrochemiluminescent organometallic compounds. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the substance is attached to one or more r... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5229272 | Catalytic antibody components Catalytic antibody components, methods for producing catalytic antibody components, methods for using catalytic antibody components, in particular, single chain and smaller components are disclosed. Catalytic antibody components able to promote the cleava... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5221605 | Luminescent metal chelate labels and means for detection A chemical moiety is disclosed which comprises a chemical biochemical, or biological substance attached to one or more electrochemiluminescent organometallic compounds. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the substance is attached to one or more ru... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5147806 | Method and apparatus for conducting electrochemiluminescence measurements A method and apparatus for conducting electrochemiluminescence (ECL) measurements which control the initial conditions relating to the surface state of a triggering working electrode by reproducibly creating and maintaining a favorable surface condition s... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5068088 | Method and apparatus for conducting electrochemiluminescent measurements A method and apparatus for triggering and measuring electrochemiluminescent phenomena using a voltage waveform applied at the voltammetric working electrode which improves the precision and accuracy of measurements. This waveform has a decreasing scan rat... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5061445 | Apparatus for conducting measurements of electrochemiluminescent phenomena An apparatus for conducting measurements of electrochemiluminescent (ECL) phenomena includes a cell unit having an electrode configuration for inducing the emission of ECL light by the application of a selected voltage waveform to a sample fluid including... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5037750 | Method for producing antibodies which catalyze chemical reactions A method for increasing the rate of chemical reactions involving the conversion of at least one reactant to at least one product involves contacting the reactant with an appropriate monoclonal antibody under conditions permitting the formation of a comple... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4963355 | Production of antibody catalysts Process for producing an antibody catalyst for a chemical reaction. Chemical reactions in which the antibody catalyst can be used are also disclosed.... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4888281 | Method of catalyzing chemical reactions A method for increasing the rate of chemical reactions involving the conversion of at least one reactant to at least one product involves contacting the reactant with an appropriate monoclonal antibody under conditions permitting the formation of a comple... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4792446 | Production of antibody catalysts Process for producing an antibody catalyst for a chemical reaction. Chemical reactions in which the antibody catalyst can be used are also disclosed.... | 12/20/1988 |