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...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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Examiner: Meeks, Timothy


Primary examiner statistics: 913 patents; average approval time: 913 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 239 patents; average approval time: 727 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8114464 Hybrid thin films that incorporate lamellar phospholipid layer as...
8114484 Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technology for large-si...
8114478 Dual-sided membrane sheet and method for making the same
8110242 Methods of preparing hydrogel coatings
8110243 Coating for a stent and a method of forming the same
8105651 Artifacts, methods of creating such artifacts and methods of usin...
8105703 Process for composite free layer in CPP GMR or TMR device
8105647 Method of forming oxide film and oxide deposition apparatus
8101245 Plasma deposition of amorphous semiconductors at microwave freque...
8097302 Electroconductive tin oxide having high mobility and low electron...
8097291 Methods for coating workpieces
8084076 Process for producing stents and corresponding stents
8084082 Optical member, optical system using the optical member, and meth...
8084094 Process of applying a coating system
8084104 Atomic composition controlled ruthenium alloy film formed by plas...
8084087 Fabrication method of size-controlled, spatially distributed nano...
8080289 Method for making an aligned carbon nanotube
8080097 System and a method for the creation of edible, optically invisib...
8079832 Device for the actively-controlled and localised deposition of at...
8080282 Method for forming silicon carbide film containing oxygen
8080290 Film formation method and apparatus for semiconductor process
8075946 Discharge method, color filter manufacturing method, electro-opti...
8075953 Thin organic alignment layers with a batch process for liquid cry...
8071163 Deposition of Ta- or Nb-doped high-k films
8071155 Medical devices and methods of making the same
8067063 Stretch composites and methods of making the composite
8062699 Method for repairing aged reinforced concrete structure using sur...
8062691 Method for treating medical devices using glycerol and an antimic...
8062716 Method for forming thin film, apparatus for forming thin film, an...
8057842 Method of contact coating a microneedle array
8057844 Methods for coating implantable medical devices
8057856 Method for gettering oxygen and water during vacuum deposition of...
8057855 Non-pressure gradient single cycle CVI/CVD apparatus and method
8053019 Thermal treatment of a drug eluting implantable medical device
8048484 Method for the deposition of a film by CVD or ALD
8048494 Diamond shell fabricated by using porous particle and the fabrica...
8043659 Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
8039059 Method for manufacturing product
8039046 Friction reduction composition and method
8039049 Treatment of low dielectric constant films using a batch processi...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6074696 Substrate processing method which utilizes a rotary member couple...
5989633 Process for overcoming CVD aluminum selectivity loss with warm PV...
5968594 Direct liquid injection of liquid ammonia solutions in chemical v...
5968587 Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of a vapor ...
5962065 Method of forming polysilicon having a desired surface roughness
5952059 Forming a piezoelectric layer with improved texture
5935662 Unwinding of plastic film in the presence of a plasma
5928723 Progress for producing surface modified metal oxide compositions
5925411 Gas-based substrate deposition protection
5919531 Tantalum and tantalum-based films and methods of making the same
5916633 Fabrication of carbon/carbon composites by forced flow-thermal gr...
5911961 Catalyst for purification of diesel engine exhaust gas
5910618 Process for preparing 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene
5908672 Method and apparatus for depositing a planarized passivation laye...
5908804 Reduction of emissions from FCC regenerators
5904957 Vapour phase chemical infiltration process for densifying porous ...
5904952 Method of plasma enhanced silicon oxide deposition
5902651 Method of reducing carbon incorporation into films produced by ch...
5902640 Method of improving field emission characteristics of diamond thi...
5900279 Processes for the chemical vapor deposition and solvent used for ...
5901271 Process of evaporating a liquid in a cyclone evaporator
5900289 Method of producing a colorating coating
5897916 Process for production of coated ceramic member
5891513 Electroless CU deposition on a barrier layer by CU contact displa...
5888924 Pollutant removal from air in closed spaces
5885894 Method of planarizing an inter-layer dielectric layer
5880055 Catalyst for polymerization of ethylene
5876793 Fine powders and method for manufacturing
5876796 Process for selectively depositing a refractory metal silicide on...
5876683 Combustion flame synthesis of nanophase materials
5876798 Method of fluorinated silicon oxide film deposition
5871816 Metallized textile
5872072 Catalytic compositions and a deodorizing method using the same
5871622 Method for making a spin valve magnetoresistive sensor
5871805 Computer controlled vapor deposition processes
5869135 Selective chemical vapor deposition of polymers
5866205 Process for titanium nitride deposition using five- and six-coord...
5863601 Process of producing graphite fiber
5863598 Method of forming doped silicon in high aspect ratio openings
5863602 Method for capturing gaseous impurities and semiconductor device ...
 
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