...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7307043 | Aqueous neonicotinoid compositions for seed treatment An aqueous composition suitable for applying insecticides or acaricides to plant propagation materials comprising water, an insecticidally or acaricidally effective amount of at least one nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound in free form or in agrochemically usefu... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7271130 | N-alkynyl-2-(substituted phenoxy) alkylamides and their use as fungicides Fungicidal compounds of the general formula (1) wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the definitions given in claim 1 ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268247 | Process for the preparation of phenylmalonic acid dinitriles Phenylmalonic acid dinitriles are prepared by reaction of, for example, phenyl Kalides with malonic acid dinitrile in the presence of palladium catalysts and bases. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7241720 | Herbicidal composition Herbicidal composition comprising: a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1; and b) an amount, effective for herbicide synergy, of mesosulfuron, mesotrione or flufenacet. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7217681 | Pesticidal composition and method for fungal control A method of reducing nematode-fungal interaction in a plant by treating a propagation material thereof with a nematicidally effective amount of a nematicide, and a fungicidally effective amount of a fungicide before the material is planted or sown. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199081 | Aqueous compositions for seed treatment An aqueous composition suitable for applying fungicides to plant propagation materials is provided, comprising water and a blend of the following components, by weight: a) 2–10% of a surface-active agent comprising a1) at least one anionic surfactant;... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192965 | 4-(3,3-dihalo-allyloxy)phenoxy alkyl derivatives Compounds of formula wherein A1, A2 and A3 are each independently of the others a bond or a C1–C6alkylene bridge; A4 i... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7166621 | Pyridyloxyalkanoic acid amide derivatives useful as fungicides Fungicidal compounds of the general formula (I): wherein X and Y are independently H, halo, C1-8 alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, C2-8 alkenyl, C2-8 alkynyl, C1-8 alkoxy, C1-8 alkylthio, nitro, amino, mono- or... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161001 | Method for making acylamides by synthesizing and acylating benzoxazines A method is provided for synthesizing acylamides, useful as protectant for cultivated plants. A benzoxazine, such as 3,4-dihydro-3-methyl-2H-1,4-benzoxazine, is made in a stepwise manner by initially forming an o-nitrophenoxyketone by reacting a haloketone and a nit... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7148029 | Immunoassay for neonicotinyl insecticides The present invention provides immunogens for generating anti-neonicotinoid antibodies as well as antibodies, methods, reagents and kits for determining the presence of one or more neonicotinoid insecticides in a sample by immunoassay. The present invention has part... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7122672 | Quinolin-, isoquinolin-, and quinazolin-oxyalkylamides and their use as fungicides Fungicidal compounds of the general formula (1) wherein one of X and Y is N or N-oxide and the other is CR or both of X and Y are N ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7105469 | Use of neonicotinoids in pest control There is now described a method of controlling pests with nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compounds; more specifically a method of controlling pests in and on transgenic crops of useful plants, such as, for example, in crops of maize, cereals, soya beans, tomatoes, co... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7071188 | Composition and method for improving plant growth The present invention relates to plant-protecting active ingredient mixtures having synergistically enhanced action and to a method of improving the growth of plants, comprising applying to the plants or the locus thereof at least three active ingredient components ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6989394 | Tetrahydropyridines Compounds of formula are described, wherein R1 and R2 are for example, independently of each other, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, halogen-C | 01/24/2006 |
| 6953811 | N-substituted tetrahydropyridines and their use as pesticides A description is given of compounds of the formula in which R1 and R2 independently of one another are halogen, C1-C6alkyl, halo-C1-C6alkyl... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6884754 | Aqueous compositions for seed treatment An aqueous composition suitable for applying fungicides to plant propagation materials is provided, comprising water and a blend of the following components, by weight: a) 2-10% of a surface-active agent comprising a1) at least one... | 04/26/2005 |