Patents by Inventor MaryBeth Liener Chin

MaryBeth Liener Chin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6851718
    Abstract: In addition to a set of dividers having staggered tabs and binder holes, the retail packaging includes a sheet protector pocket having a front sheet and a back sheet and binder holes. The user removes the dividers and pocket from the packaging and custom designs and prints sheet indicia on a paper sheet. He/she then inserts the printed sheet into the pocket whereby the front sheet allows the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough. The front sheet has pre-printed indicia thereon. With the printed sheet in the pocket and the pocket and dividers assembled in a ringed notebook or other binding system, the sheet indicia and the pre-printed indicia line up with respective ones of the tabs. The indicia thereby form an attractive custom-designed table of contents, which can be easily corrected or changed by the user by simply printing and inserting into the pocket a new sheet. The front sheet can either be transparent or have a window to allow the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: MaryBeth Liener Chin, Galen C. Wong
  • Publication number: 20040150214
    Abstract: In addition to a set of dividers having staggered tabs and binder holes, the retail packaging includes a sheet protector pocket having a front sheet and a back sheet and binder holes. The user removes the dividers and pocket from the packaging and custom designs and prints sheet indicia on a paper sheet. He/she then inserts the printed sheet into the pocket whereby the front sheet allows the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough. The front sheet has pre-printed indicia thereon. With the printed sheet in the pocket and the pocket and dividers assembled in a ringed notebook or other binding system, the sheet indicia and the pre-printed indicia line up with respective ones of the tabs. The indicia thereby form an attractive custom-designed table of contents, which can be easily corrected or changed by the user by simply printing and inserting into the pocket a new sheet. The front sheet can either be transparent or have a window to allow the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: MaryBeth Liener Chin, Galen C. Wong
  • Patent number: 6632042
    Abstract: In addition to a set of dividers having staggered tabs and binder holes, the retail packaging includes a sheet protector pocket having a front sheet and a back sheet and binder holes. The user removes the dividers and pocket from the packaging and custom designs and prints sheet indicia on a paper sheet. He/she then inserts the printed sheet into the pocket whereby the front sheet allows the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough. The front sheet has pre-printed indicia thereon. With the printed sheet in the pocket and the pocket and dividers assembled in a ringed notebook or other binding system, the sheet indicia and the pre-printed indicia line up with respective ones of the tabs. The indicia thereby form an attractive custom-designed table of contents, which can be easily corrected or changed by the user by simply printing and inserting into the pocket a new sheet. The front sheet can either be transparent or have a window to allow the sheet indicia to be viewed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: MaryBeth Liener Chin, Galen C. Wong
  • Publication number: 20020127047
    Abstract: Title areas are preprinted on the table-of-contents sheet and oriented so that the titles are designed by the user on his personal computer and printed in the areas on his desktop printer. In addition to this sheet a set of dividers having staggered tabs are provided to the user in the retail packaging. The tabs have individual indicia (such as coloring, numbers and/or letters) corresponding to that of each of the title areas. The divider sheets when in a binder system have the tabs and their indicia running in a landscape direction from left to right. Lines on the sheet connecting the title areas with the corresponding tabs can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Russell D. Pollman, MaryBeth Liener Chin, Grace Kurek