A small pad of original style lined yellow Post-It brand notes Product type, Owner Country, U.S. Introduced 1977; 42 years ago ( 1977) Website A Post-it Note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.
Think of ‘Sticky Notes’ as a digital version of ‘Post-It Notes” that you can “stick” onto your Windows Desktop. The directions below explain how to paste a ‘Sticky Note’ to your Windows 8.1 Desktop: 1 – Press the Windows + S key combination to display the Search box. To begin, you'll want to create a new desktop on which you'll post your sticky notes. To create a new desktop, click the Task View button on the Taskbar. When you see the Task View display, click.
A low- allows the notes to be easily attached, removed and even re-posted elsewhere without leaving residue. Originally small yellow squares, Post-it Notes and related products are available in various colors, shapes, sizes and adhesive strengths. Although 's patent expired in 1997, 'Post-it' and the original notes' distinctive yellow color remain registered company, with terms such as 'repositionable notes' used for similar offerings manufactured by competitors. While use of the trademark 'Post-it' in a representative sense refers to any sticky note, no legal authority has ever held the trademark to be. The adhesive side of a Post-it Note, magnified 555x on an SEM In 1968, Dr., a scientist at 3M in the United States, was attempting to develop a super-strong adhesive. Instead, he accidentally created a 'low-tack', reusable,. For five years, Silver promoted his 'solution without a problem' within 3M both informally and through seminars, but failed to gain acceptance.
In 1974, a colleague who had attended one of his seminars, came up with the idea of using the adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his. Fry then utilized 3M's officially sanctioned 'permitted ' policy to develop the idea. The original notes' yellow color was chosen by accident, as the lab next-door to the Post-It team had only yellow scrap paper to use. 3M launched the product as 'Press 'n Peel' bookmark in stores in four cities in 1977, but results were disappointing. A year later, 3M instead issued free samples directly to consumers in, with 94 percent of those who tried them indicating they would buy the product. The product was sold as 'Post-Its' in 1979 when the rollout introduction began, and was sold across the United States from April 6, 1980.
The following year, they were launched in Canada and Europe. In 2003, the company came out with 'Post-it Brand Super Sticky Notes', with a stronger glue that adheres better to vertical and non-smooth surfaces. Until 3M's patent expired in the 1990s, Post-it type notes were produced only in the company's plant in. In 2018, 3M launched the new 'Post-It Extreme Notes', designed to be more durable and water-resistant, and to stick to a variety of surfaces to which regular Post-It notes do not easily adhere. The Post-It Extreme Notes were specifically designed with work environments like construction and manufacturing in mind. Competing claims Inventor has made claims to be the inventor who in 1973 disclosed the technology used on the Post-it Note to 3M in 1974.
His 1997 suit against 3M was settled and 3M paid Amron. As part of the settlement, Amron undertook not to make future claims against the company except if ever a breach of the settlement agreement should occur.
However, in 2016, he launched a further suit against 3M, asserting that 3M were wrongly claiming to be the inventors, and seeking $400 million in damages. At a preliminary hearing, a ordered the parties to undergo. The suit was subsequently dismissed declaring the previous 1998 settlement agreement to be upheld. In July 2016 a former 3M marketing department employee, Daniel Dassow, voluntarily came forward as an eyewitness that in 1974 Alan Amron had in fact disclosed his Press-on memo sticky notes invention to 3M. See 3M Company v.
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