...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 |
| 8039611 | 2′-hydroxyl group-modified ribonucleoside derivatives Provided is a ribonucleoside derivative represented by General Formula (I): (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 represents a met... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7569685 | Artificial RNAóS modified at the 2ó-hydroxyl group The purpose of the present invention is to develop a system for efficiently constituting cyanoethyl ethers under mild conditions and probability of the ethers as functional groups for imparting specific functions and to make a contribution to the production of novel... | 08/04/2009 |