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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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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100017694 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR CREATING AND ANNOTATING CONTENT An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating creation and review of content. An accessor accesses content that is to be reviewed. If the review is to be made using media of a type different than the stored content, a converter converts the content into a des... | 01/21/2010 |
