Did You Know...
...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 |
| 7540377 | Combined greeting card and sock holding apparatus An apparatus includes a unitary body that includes a front section with planar front and rear surfaces. A rear section is spaced from the front section and extends parallel thereto. The body also includes a shoulder portion monolithically formed with the front and r... | 06/02/2009 |
| 6170665 | Greeting card and tie A combination greeting card box and gift tie has several unique point of sale features. The concept has a shipping box that doubles as a point of sale display for the box and the gift tie it is designed to contain. The box has an open position where it fu... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5961033 | Packing board for supporting a folded-up shirt in shape A packing board for supporting and securing a folded-up shirt in shape, having two side panels symmetrically extended from two opposite lateral sides of a base panel thereof for holding down a folded-up shirt on the base panel, each side panel having a pl... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5377883 | Necktie insert By providing an elongated, substantially continuous body portion having a size and shape corresponding to a major length of conventional neckties, with said body portion incorporating a plurality of apertures formed therein, a necktie insert for promoting... | 01/03/1995 |
| 4071140 | Package and display device A display device for folded soft goods comprising a planar back portion, a folded up front portion, a bottom portion separating the front and back portion and forming a space for the reception of the folded goods, a roof portion adapted to be folded down ... | 01/31/1978 |
