Nationality Mexican, American Role Author Name Victor Celorio | Website www.victorcelorio.com Occupation Writer, Inventor Known for InstaBook | |
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Full Name Victor Manuel Celorio Garrido Born July 27, 1957 (age 67) ( 1957-07-27 ) Mexico City, Mexico Books Twisted Gods, Blue Unicorn | ||
Victor Celorio
Víctor Celorio (born July 27, 1957 in Mexico City) is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He is best known as the inventor of InstaBook, a digital printing technology. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.
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Career
As an inventor, Celorio obtained patents for the technology popularly known as InstaBook or Book On Demand, as well as that of distributed printing technology in which a digital file is distributed among as many printing centers as required for immediate production and delivery. (US PATENTS 6012890, 6213703, Chinese Patent 97705, Mexican Patent 241092, others). On March 28, 2012, in decision number 2012-000170 the USPTO rejected some of the objections presented by a third party to Celorio patent 6,2137,03, and some of the patent's nineteen claims. Celorio decided to appeal to the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEDERAL CIRCUIT. And on 2013, seven claims of that patent were fully validated by the Federal Court of Appeals, (see appeal number 13-1194) and the patent itself declared valid.
In the late eighties, he created a digital network of print on demand centers around Mexico City, and in the nineties he founded InstaBook Corporation, a company to market the technology that became known as Print on Demand or Book on Demand.
Celorio is also a writer and publisher of several books. In an interview published in The Seybold Report, written by George A. Alexander, (2002) Victor Celorio described his love affair with books since he was a child. He knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he was 10 years old and he published his first short story at the age of 14 in a magazine called Al Sur del Sur.
Bibliography
As an author, Celorio has published six books, both in Spanish and in English. His titles include one of the first books ever distributed through the Internet. The book was entitled Proyecto Mexico (Blue Unicorn Editions Florida, 1995, ISBN 1-58396-059-7). This work is a political essay published in 1995 in which the author proposes that Mexico, his country of origin, lacks a long-term project as a country. Therefore, all political remedies to the problems affecting that country will lack a global goal and will be short term in nature. Thus, Mexico as a country will go from one short-term solution to the next short-term solution until a true national project is negotiated among all political parties.