Press On Memo Examples

There are many things in life that we take for granted. Have you ever stopped and wondered where some of the things we use daily come from? Maybe you asked yourself, where would I be without such a product? No matter what you ask yourself we can be grateful that someone else thought of that same question and answered that question. One such product that we don’t even think about and most of us use a lot is the Post-it note or Press-on memo. Here is the tricky part of this product. The original name was Press-on memo so how come we don’t use Press-on memos and no they didn’t just change the name. So let us do a little digging into the past and talk about how the Press-on memo was developed, then how 3M corporation stole the idea as their own

Spencer Silver, of 3M, is credited with creating the formula for the adheasive in 1968 and Art Fry perfected the formula in 1974. 3M corporation is one of the leading industries leading manufacturer of office supplies and other office related items. In 1968 Dr. Silver was trying to make a super strong adheasive and ended up making a super weak on instead. Since the adheasive was weak 3M had no use for it and I was shelved. In 1974 Art Fry was an intern at 3M and was talking with another scientist there and they were talking about Dr. Silver’s invention. Art Fry ended up getting a job with 3M and took the adheasive and played with the mixture so that it would stick better to the paper it was applied to instead of what it was being stuck to. 3M patented the idea and formula in 1977. Now we know that Dr. Silver made the adheasive, Art Fry perfected it and 3M patented it in

Here is the important part of all of this information. 3M was selling a yellow square, resuable, self sticking note pad and Amron’s product that he was selling was a square yellow, reusable, self sticking note pad. So 3M didn’t even hide the fact that they stole Alan Amron’s Press-on memo and used it for themselves. 3M though was having problems of their own since they were having problem selling their product. 3M tried multiple times and many cities to get their product to sell but their marketing strategy wasn’t getting the job done. It wasn’t until 1977 when they made one last attempt at selling the product in Boise Idaho that they caught their break people started buying the note pad. It was in 1977 that 3M patented their sticky pad dated back to Sep 1974. Alan Amron was still trying to sell his product but also wasn’t having any big success with selling his product. He didn’t realize that 3M was even interested in his product since they never called him back. He continued to sell his product along with creating new products. It wasn’t until 1997 that Alan Amron did anything about the theft of his