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Eco-Friendly Binders with No Rings to replace Ring Binder?

Pre-Order Zero-Waste Binder KIT (ships late April)Are you looking for Eco-friendly Binder?

A quick search on the internet reveals a few Kraft paper-finished Binders with the Eco description attached to them.

I wonder why we call them ECO.

Because of lack of better option?

The Vinyl or other Plastic covers are replaced with paper. But the complicated metal mechanism presenting the sharp tooths of metal rings is still there— and the heavy covers and the mechanism weigh a lot. Plus, there is a never-ending headache: What size should I buy?

0.5″? 1″? 1.5″? 2″? 3″?

What would you do presented with a binder without all the above headaches? 

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Ringless binders with tabs

Ring-less Multi-binder with two sets of paperwork inside
Same Ring-less Multi-binder with two sets of paperwork inside. UP to 350 pages.

This Binder reduces 80% of the materials and waste used for the Ring Binders.

No Spine and NO Rings still perform the same function and are much more pleasing because of their flexibility.

 They come in two Flavors. 

0-2″ Multi-binder. Two sets of ties bind two sets of paperwork. 0-3″ up to 6″ Spineless binder
ringless multi-binder with one set of paperwork
ringless multi-binder with one set of paperwork

Both weigh around 2 ounces and are cut from a flexible sheet of tear-resistant paper.

Spineless Binder covers with two tags
Spineless Binder Covers with two tags
Compare the sizes
Compare Sizes. Black three-ring Binder with a ringless binder on top
Stack of Spineless Binders with visible tags
Stack of Spineless Binders with visible tags

The Eco trend is here to stay.

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how many school supplies does your child really need in Idaho?

I recently read a post by KAT, Idaho’s proud parent of a school-age daughter.

There are funny questions about the availability of medical help for kids carrying backpacks heavier than themselves, the number of 3-ring binders of all sizes littering her closets, and the abundance of other school supplies lingering in her house.

Very few people take on this subject since most of us take the reality as it is without a word of protest. There is no alternative, they think. Even if they would go outside marching with signs protesting the terror of school supply reality, there is not to hope much somebody will help.

Years ago, when going to school, I used one copybook, always starting with the first page during each lesson and tearing it out to have it new and fresh for new upcoming subjects. How did I get away with that? God only knows what smart kids can do to survive school.

My creative use of paper did not end there.

Being always a fan of paper and paper-made things, I won the school competition by constructing a Steam engine model from paper. At my older age, I concluded that paper printing and distributing flyers and papers about communist government activity was a good idea.

The fate of similar Paper addicts followed…

So being an expert on “PAPER, or rather paper addict, ” I can offer KAT advice.

Do not use Ring Binders. Instead of the long selections of Colors and sizes and misaligned rings and Spines dominating your landscape, use a “ringless Binder.”

I devised it as another paper to hold the leaflets. Yes, a Single sheet of paper with a few ties cut into the covers holding any number of pages and not exceeding the thickness of the stack, not even a fraction of the inch like the ring binder spines DO.

No metal rings, parts, heavy covers, and spines. Just a plain Flat sheet of tear-resistant paper.

It is an ECO-friendly contraption eliminating 80% of the material normally used in a ring binder.

It will reduce the stacks of used and unused binders to a few discreet pages in your situation.

I am sure your kids will love the fact that the Ring binders are gone and, no doubt, will finish off the ringless binders very quickly, so there will be no residue left in your closets after school years. They are Eco – recyclable.

Can you imagine? You do not tear apart pages anymore.

You can remove and replace them in quite an orderly fashion. I wish I had one years ago.

And they are Flexible and Soft to the touch.

Jacek

The Paper Addict.

 
ringless multi-binder with one set of paperwork
ringless multi-binder with one set of paperwork
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Why choose No Ring Binder?

Ringless Binder

You may think I am talking about a ghost since no product is available to fit this description. But you may be wrong.

There is one using ties instead of rings.

Recently I read an article hailing the advantages of 2 rings binders over three rings binders. According to the author, with two rings is easier to flip through the pages. The author also extensively discusses the benefits of the ” light-touch lever-arch mechanism with an easy-grip rubber handle.”  There is also “A unique ball-and-socket ring closure” and “locking bar mechanism” The description is long and complicated enough to fall asleep before you finish the sentence.

You may skip all this boredom and go straight to the no doubt more sexy “NO RING BINDER.“

It is SIMPLE. Cover with a couple of ties cut into it.

IT IS EASY TO FLIP THROUGH THE PAGES like a notebook since it has no sticking-out rings.

As an additional benefit, I should mention that the basic version of the NO RING or RINGLESS Binder comes with two sets of ties, each assigned to the left edge of the respective cover. It is possible because the FLAT ties don’t stick out of the cover plane, even one millimeter/fraction of an inch. So, You may divide your paperwork. For example, Your calendar/organizer on the left and your notes on the right.

ringless binder with two spines
Ringless Binder with two spines

It is a unique solution, Notebook, and Binder in ONE.

If you are in doubt, check the video below.

The Binder shown in this video is a “Single Spine” (single set of ties) capable of handling up to 150 pages.

Two spines (two sets of ties) Binder’s main purpose is to handle up to 350 pages of your paperwork. And then there is the

Spineless version, capable of handling from 1-800 pages. One sizes takes all without the ring binder headache forcing you to choose one of the several sizes (1/2″,1″,1.5″, etc.)

Try One.

With no rings, there is no Spine.

 

 

 

 
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Ring Binder, Ring-less binder or Not?

Have you received a dirty look from a fellow you just handed a collection of papers kept together with staples?

The wire not flattened enough by the stapler hurts.
Bloody fingers do not add to the positive impression of your offer.
It seems stingy. Didn’t it?
But being serious, how many of us are forced to use ring binders as early as in school and hate the brick-like contraptions? The rings are always in the way of your hand reaching the opposite page and the spine. The spine sticks like a mountain, blocking the view and taking your storage space even if half empty.

Ringless binder or Not? You may collect the full display of negative emotions toward Ring Binders here and there when searching the internet and blogs dealing with organizers. Teachers and students share their solutions to avoid and replace the infamous Ring-binder. They are discussing: the disc-bound notebooks, Chicago screws, metal prongs, and a variety of other solutions designed with one goal in mind To make it FLAT.

The rest of and adult population seems to have given up their hopes seeing no solutions. 

But there is a Ring-less binder developed in Chicago. It contains no metal parts of any sort visible among competing solutions. Cut from a flat sheet of reinforced paper. No sticking out pieces, rings, or prongs. Nothing can hurt your fingers, and it binds any number of leaflets effortlessly. One universal size replaces the usual selection of Ring binders designed for a specific number of sheets.

When I asked the designer why he spent his time designing solutions for the office supply industry when every CEO is eyeing electronic files and computers as replacements for paper documents, he said:

A piece of paper can last for hundreds of years without a power source. Can you find a similar Hard drive? You print your family pictures to preserve them on paper. How many have you lost when kept in memory of your electronic devices? Of course, electronics have their role, but they are not solutions for everything.

Kids still go to school, and we all use tons of paper. We need a hard copy here and there. Where would I keep my records when all my hard drives for the last ten years are gone? I do not have to worry about compatibility or power supply with paper. Plus the cost. It is just a fraction of a penny per page.

There is a future for paper, but not everybody has enough imagination to see it. Certainly, it is time to offer something better, not the museum quality 133 years old contraption (Ring binder) born at the time the first steam engines entered the world. For people paying attention is clear that the public is searching for a replacement.

The big behemoths of Industry in the US have no interest in upending their already existing sales and offer a simpler, less expensive, and very competitive to their offer product. As you probably know, competition in the US died under several decisions of the Supreme Court promoting the interest of Big tech. Infringers who have no interest in promoting competition to their well-established offer. That is why many new products already available elsewhere never will have any chance to show up in the US. As an inventor, I have bigger hopes in the EU since there is no antipatent Big Tech lobby and no PTAB invalidating 84% of all nationally issued patents. In the US, Small companies are quickly extinguished by Big Tech moneyed competition and domestic or Chinese Infringers. At a certain point, when you see all roadblocks in the US, you start to think: What we inventors do here is out of desperation, not hope, knowing full well that we should look to have a startup and hope to survive elsewhere outside of the US.

I knew well the plight of independent Inventors in the US.

The Supreme court made several inventions “Patent ineligible” in direct defiance of Congress-made statutes and the US Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. Plus, there is PTAB. Established by the 2011 Leahy Smith American invention Act Patent review board know, also as the “Patents Killer squad.” PTAB is invalidating 84% of issued by USPTO patents at the request of the competition. For people looking for more info, you should start searching for information about “Efficient Infringement,” describing how big US and Chinese corporations kill competitive startups in the US.

Suppose you wonder why you can have patents for certain types of technology abroad when in the US, it is forbidden. I think the answer is clear. Big Tech doesn’t wish to have competition.

We wish the designers good luck finding the future – but Abroad?

Do we wonder why 50% of foreign fillers in the German Patent office are from the US? With the EU unitarian patent court and a pan-European patent on the horizon, the outflow from the US may only increase.

Do you need more information?    There is a movie, INNOVATION RACE explaining the basics.

How China is winning the race and we are losing.

It would help if you considered it your patriotic duty to support HR 5874 by tossing away all the misgivings in US patent law and creating conditions to restore US competitiveness.

Sorry, I should write about the Fellow with a bleeding finger handling my paperwork, but… More blood comes from other directions.

J.T.

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The Guide to the best Ring-less Binders

The idea of a Ring-less binder is an expression of desire by people craving a binder without the pain of the rings. The actual product PER SE did not exist for the last 133 years since the Rings were invented. The expression is mainly used by young people still hoping to find an alternative to a ring binder and is sometimes used by marketers who are aware of that.

And there are attempts to right the wrong in the ring binder:

  1. It did not escape the attention of designers at the five Star ACCO Brands creating Flex Binder. “It acts like a notebook and binder. The plastic cover folds back over the rings to lie flat like a notebook.    Substitute designers used Ties made from steel wire covered with plastic as rings. 1 1/2″ rings hold up to 300 sheets.” Yes, You may call it Ring-less, but the metal wire seems like an overkill, not fulfilling the promise of a flat binder. By addressing the fixed dimension problem of a ring binder, the product is sought after among students in the US. 

    From our point of view, being assembled with steel wire and other heavy components, it is overkill to use pounds of steel to bind ounces of paper. Still quite cumbersome to handle, almost like it’s an older brother ring binder.

     The second iteration of the Ring-less Binder is available in the EU. Not universally known among users and sold under different names:

    “Strip-Binder“ or “Loop File”

  2. I think the lack of one easily recognizable name leads to struggle in the market. Four major companies in the EU produce it. You may bind up to 30-50 pages max, and it is flat and quite handy, but the plastic prongs tend to bend uncontrollably when used extensively, rendering the whole thing useless.
    From our experience point of view, this is quite a handy gadget but feels too vulnerable to the touch of the user’s hands. As users report, it doesn’t last very long.

3. Sold in the EU. Q-Connect Transfer File 35mm Capacity Foolscap Buff or “Transfer Spring File.”

  • Spring binder for secure storage and reorganization of documents
  • Spring clip mechanism: insert and remove papers quickly anywhere
  • The compressor bar keeps records neat
  • Easy access to files for quick reorganization
  • It fits A4 and foolscap documents
  • Capacity: 35mm. (1.37″)

    With about 240 pages max capacity, it serves the user better than the “Loop file.”

  • Then there are the springs and the metal mechanism that make it flat impossible.

    ACCO Presstex Hanging Data Binder, 12″ x 8.5″, 6″ thick

    The 6″ (15.5cm) (to carry 11 pounds / 5kg) of paper is Impressive but complicated. Online reviews indicate that not every user can follow assembly directions.

    Then we have the mavericks.

  • Fastykula
    Fastykula

    “FASTYKULA “The impossible to pronounce name describes the binder used in archives in Poland.

    It binds several pages perfectly flat thanks to an uncomplicated combination of Covers and ribbons. We like its lack of pretenses—simple and effective solution.

The last on our list today is the “Ringless Binder.”

Made from a tear-resistant flexible sheet of paper, it no doubt fits the ringless description delivering the same utility as a ring binder with ties instead of rings. The big spine covering the rings is gone, and the empty or full binder is always flat without the added pleasure of dealing with the spine always present in ring binders.

There is one more big difference between Ringless Binder and the rest,

ringless binder with two spines
ringless binder with two spines

Ringless binders may have more than one spine.

Thanks to the flat unobtrusive profile of the binding ties, It increases the number of bound documents and allows multiple spines to divide papers into separate sections. Quite a wonder in the office world. It comes in several versions.

1) Binder

2) Multibinder  Two Spines 350 pages

3) Universal Binder  Two Spines 350 pages. It has additional ties allowing to use it for two hole Prong folder punched paper

4) Spineless Binder  800 pages plus

Mutlibinder Filled with documents
Mutlibinder Filled with documents.

We think this unknown “Ringless Binder,” “bind book,” “multi-binder,” or whatever name its designer applies the easiest to use of all the listed above.
* It delivers the Binder – notebook combination most users are searching for. (No sticking out rings)
* Delivers the additional new benefit of a second spine allowing the user to divide the paperwork.
* Its one-size Spineless Version replaces the whole gamut of different thicknesses of ring binders. Being able to bind continuously any amount of pages from 1-800 (No need to estimate what thickness of ring binder I should use)
* Since it eliminates all metal parts and 80% of the weight of materials used for comparable ring binders is ECO-Friendly.
How to find it? You may Google Ringless Binder. Among the results, you will find some links.
Sold on Etsy and PaperBee.net
Most manufacturers dress ring binders in Kraft paper Finish and claim it ECO-Friendly. Eliminating the poisonous vinyl, Polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) from covers is a step in the right direction, but what about the Metal parts? Here we have a product delivering full functionality using only 20% of materials used by competing solutions and eliminating steel/metal parts with a high carbon footprint.

 

 
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ring binder notebook

supreme cat
supreme cat

Ring Binder Notebook

The three words are like a mantra, always repeating wherever I am looking.

From what I see. In simple translation, the three words are expressions of incompatible wishes. No Ring binder will pass as a notebook.

Yet you can find sellers offering something that appears to be Gun forced marriages. Except ONE. The Ringless binder!

New kid on the block. Good-looking, Slim and thin (like most youngsters), have no Big belly hiding the Rings. Instead, Flexible ties emerge from a flat sheet of tearproof paper. They fashion colorful covers with sometimes animal images, which is Good for youngsters. Finally, they can take their favorite pet to school and will not be chastised for that. One of them fashions a Title “Supreme Cat grab folder.”

As the designer/artist explains. It is in honor of the US Supreme Court Judges grabbing whatever they can from our rights like, for example, the right to possess fruits of our labor (Oil States VS Green energy April 24, 2018) In essence:” You are an Inventor, You build something, You spend time and money and to your surprise, it belongs not to you it is own by the government.” As the designer claims the “Supreme Cat grab folder” grabs the leaflets with the same zeal as the Supreme Court grabs our rights.

multi binder open
Ringless multi-binder filled and open

But seriously. It does.

“Ringless binder” keeps up to 350 pages attached to two sets of ties.

The ties are cut into the left edges of the covers. Ties are flat and unobtrusive. Thanks to such an arrangement there is no need to have the big bulky spine so present in any Ring Binder. The two sets of papers are shifted away from the spine leaving enough space for it to remain flat.

Flat and flexible Is easy to carry around if you use it as a portfolio filler. NO RINGS!!!

Try one. The long-suffered pain of dealing with the brick-like ring binder will be gone in no time. It has siblings like the “Spineless Binder” singlehandedly managing up to 800 pages in a single shot instead of the range of thicknesses employed by the ring binders. Simplify your life.

ringless binder
ringless binder
ringless binder
ringless binder in a portfolio

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Cute Binders for school

Cute Binders for school

In the Sahara-like landscape of the US office supplies, one Camel takes all attention.

Its big hump dominates the landscape. It is a three-ring binder with a Big Spine. The remainder of the old times when was born along with the steam engine and they conquered the world together. The Steam Engine is in the museums. The old ring binder still rules the office world. Most people recognize the fact that his ribs or rings so painful to use are borrowed from the Thesaurus Rex but there is no easy replacement.

 

ringless binder with koi fish
ringless binder with koi fish

Is easy to understand why we face such limited selections by looking at the endless reviews of “Cute School Binders” all leading to amazon. com Sponsored By Amazon. com. Paid for by Amazon. com Sold by…  One behemoth dominating the US landscape is limiting competition and our choices. Trying to change that There is even a wholesale website containing a selection of merchandise under the title “Not Sold on Amazon .com”

If you pay enough attention you know: The younger generation is looking for an easier way to handle the paperwork.

There are a few new choices not known before. They deliver not only some fun for your kid but are also much easier to use.

Let me introduce a Ringless Binder

1st- Great News. The Metal mechanism with the Rings is GOONE. Replaced with flexible ties cut into the covers of the binder. It eliminates the Spine hanging like a mountain over every Ring Binder making it impossible to store.

Ring binder rings
Ring binder rings

Our Notebook-Binder is always FLAT.Multibinder empty

Multibinder empty. Just a sheet of paper

Made from a sheet of tear-resistant paper is flexible and pleasant to handle. It comes in different configurations.

1) Basic with a single set of ties, tying up to 150 pages.

2) You can have also a Multibinder to use as two subjects Notebook/binder. It can handle double the number of pages (up to 350) thanks to the unusual arrangements of two sets of ties.

ringless binder with two spines
ringless binder with two spines

3) There are also other arrangements but what counts the covers among others offer nice animal-related art / unlimited fun for kids crawling for some beautiful toys. Only Pets they can take to school.

Below you may see a few designs. We will add some of them to our offer. If you like one. Please let us know.

Ringless binders
Selection of simple ringless binders

Wake up

do not set up a reminder

look up and buy now

the cute ringless binder

 
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Should I use a notebook or binder for college?

Single Spine Ringless Binder demonstration

Should I use a notebook or binder for college?

This is a question we should not ask. Unfortunately, Ever present Ring Binders do not offer the utility most students are looking for. Blogs are full of discussions about the most comfortable arrangement everybody is looking for. On the TOP of their Wish List is No doubt a “Ring-less Binder”. The ribs, Pardon, Rings of the Dinosaurs Rex of the office world are always in the way of fingers trying to write or reach the opposite page and everybody wants to get rid of them.

We think we have a solution to their dreams. In the form of a real Ringless Binder.

What we would like to recommend? Shamelessly our own design. Ringless Binder.

Ring-less Multi binder demonstration
Ring-less Multi binder with two spines and up to 350 pages

Rings are replaced with flexible ties. The spine is eliminated. As well as 80% of the material used to assemble the Ring-binder. The poisonous Vinyl Covers are gone.  Finally, you can use an Eco-friendly binder.

Binder Notebook opened
Binder Notebook opened

It is a simple sheet of tear-proof paper with ties cut from the covers. It keeps together almost any number of pages. If You need a zippered portfolio you may use this binder and insert it like any notebook.

ringless binder with koi fish
ringless binder with koi fish

So finally here is the real Notebook/Binder in One. In our Shop.

Try One. Certainly is not going to cost you a fortune, especially compared with Ring binders.

 

 

 

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What is better notebook or binder?

Ringless Binder with single spine and 150 pages capacity
No Ring Binder with single spine and 150 pages capacity

Notebook or binder.

Are there binders without rings?

Students in US schools forced to deal with the pain of using and carrying around brick-like ring binders are asking endless questions. You can easily see that on the top of their wishes is a quite legendary “Binder notebook.” This nowhere to find mythical beast combines the utility of the ring binder with a simple, easy-to-use notebook.

Three-ring binder was born at the same time as the First Steam engine

Students shopping for basic school supplies meet the stark market reality where the only choice is a 133-year-old Ring-binder.

A not exactly modern solution, the Ring binder was invented when the first Steam Engines came to life.

A few manufacturers are producing a variety of widgets that are supposed to replace the Ring Binder, but none of them is up to the task.

The problem is spines exceed the thickness of the paper they contain. The need to deal with metal prongs (Prong Folder) that easily hurt fingers with sharp metal edges, or the fancy Punchless binders in various shapes, frankly missing the tooth to grab and keep the leaflets effectively. 

There is a solution that comes closest to fulfilling the dreams. The Flex hybrid note binder has collapsible rings made from steel wire, but the heavy-duty beast takes up so much space in the backpack and, quite frankly, quite often feels like an overkill. Pounds of steel to carry ounces of paper?

Notebook Binder
Notebook / Binder for school

So among the unsatisfied, a designer came up with a simpler solution.

The ringless binder is made from a sheet of tear-resistant paper.

Ringless binder with its 2 oz (56grams) average weight is ECO friendly. The designer Eliminatined 80% of the material usually involved in the CONSTRUCTION of the OLD Ring-binder.

Try it out! Visit our Shop at SmartPaperCuts.com 

Binder Notebook opened
Binder Notebook opened

 

 

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Why US patent is worthless? How your property is Stolen.

The answer to the above question is simple. (8/8/22)

After patent issuance, USPTO (United States Patent Office), you have an 84% chance that at the request of a competitor, your patent is going to be INVALIDATED. The 84% number is official and comes from the USPTO division PTAB better known under the unofficial nickname “Death Squad for Patents.”

The reason? Big Tech. Companies do not wish to have competition.

If you consider that 75% (individual inventors) and 50% (in the case of moneyed Corporations) of patent applications will be rejected, please calculate the actual rate of your success as an inventor. It means that, statistically, you have to submit at least 26 applications to have one survive, and the actual patent issuance number by USPTO (after changing its mind regarding the validity of your patent after issuing it and then invalidating in its division PTAB) is not the 25% for individual Inventor but an abysmal 4%

4% under ONE CONDITION. Do not forget that after spending a substantial amount of money and time on the new technological development ( All the work, trials, Prototypes, lawyers, etc.), you must have in your war chest between $100,000 to $700,000 for each challenge upfront of the PTAB. There is no statuary limit to the number of the challenges. Without the MONEY, you are doomed as an individual with a stupid dream.

In addition, The Supreme Court, in their never-ending wisdom, decided to support BIG TECH, and they will not allow the issuance of patents in certain areas in direct defiance of the U.S. Constitution. So they issued several decisions in favor of corporations. Among them, they endorsed theft. (By eBay) That is why there is a vast number of technologies ineligible to receive patents in the U.S. (IN THE US ONLY)

You can have a patent issued abroad but not in the U.S.

Reason?

Big Tech does not wish to have competition.

If you somehow survive all of the above, you face that your patent, in reality, in the U.S., is not enforceable. Anybody can take your technology and start using it freely, not paying a dime. It is happening thanks to the power of “Efficient Infringement.“ It means that corporations are keenly aware that the cost of pursuing infringers in U.S. courts comes to millions and years of effort, and very few individuals and startups can afford that.

In the meantime, no investor will touch you with the most extended pole. If you’re producing your invention yourself, do not worry. Chinese and big domestic infringers will start selling unauthorized copies on AMAZON before you start your production, undercutting your product’s price, quality, and safety. (And you are liable for the inferior quality/dangerous copies because this is your product)

Hello, are you Still There?

Go to China. Intellectual property offices will enforce your Chinese patent rights at no cost to you. And the fact is that China has already surpassed the U.S. in many areas thanks to the wise judges of the U.S. Supreme Court barring software, Computer related patents.

Remember You do not have to go to China to have your US patent “invalidated” by the Chinese Competitor in PTAB.

Oh, you do not like Communism?!!

Then file through WIPO.

Among your options, you will find “Industrial Design registration,” allowing you to register your I.P. intellectual property rights at an instant in up to 99 countries and up to 25 years in one single application.

In the E.U. (27 countries), One of my friends paid for six designs, with two illustrations each $1700, and registered within a week. And they tread I.P. seriously. Based on “Industrial design registration,” you may obtain institutional financing, investors, etc. Compare it to a few years-long, expensive efforts in the USPTO.

Just do not make a mistake, including in your registration the U.S.

Outside of the U.S., in 99 countries in one application, you can include up to 100 designs at around 10k.

The USPTO will divide your single application into separate ones, charge you about $600 for each, and process it as a design patent.

For 100 designs, it makes a total of 60,000 to start compared to 10k for the rest of the Hague system participants.

Plus, you will wait at least two years before they will take a look and most likely reject most of them for procedural reasons.

For exact numbers, check respective websites.

If you want the existing change situation and go back to U.S. patent golden standard before the 2011 AIA legislation support H.R. 5874

and please $upport accurate Inventor representation by U.S. Inventors

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Patent Stolen from MOLLY METZ: INVENTOR OF THE REVOLUTION ROPE

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MOLLY METZ: INVENTOR OF THE REVOLUTION ROPE

Molly Metz wasn’t named “Queen of the Rope” for nothing. She holds 5-world championships, is the reigning National Champion in a 30+-year-old division and is known in the industry for jumping ten consecutive minutes of double-under. She is the only jump-roper to have had a patent…until the PTAB took it away.

 

At age seven, Molly started her jump-roping career. Only one year later, she had traveled worldwide for jump-rope competitions. Three years later, at the age of ten, she won her first world championship. In 2002, she won her fifth world championship.

Molly knew her passion was jump-roping. So much so that she was inspired to help kids learn it, practice it, and then teach it. She wanted to spread her passion to everyone. In 2006, Molly started her business, JumpNrope, with the intent to work with kids. Molly trained kids through her business, at recreation centers and developed after-school programs for kids. Throughout her years, she educated and employed over twenty-five jump roping coaches at different locations

In 2007, Molly was in a car accident, where she suffered major injuries. After healing and getting back into her jump-roping lifestyle, she learned that the old jump ropes could not keep up with her and move efficiently with her injury. So, she decided to take her profession into her own hands, and she began to design different styles to improve the versatility of the jump rope.

Molly filed for the patent in 2009; The Revolution Rope or “R1 Speed Rope”. This design includes a handle with a pivoting-eye-technology feature that reduced the degree of the wire in the handle to create optimal rotation of the rope, without it being directly linked to the handle. This design makes it the most precise speed and power jump rope in the world.

 

A standard jump rope consists of a rope and a handle. The bottom of the handle contains a hole, where the rope is directly inserted and then somehow fastened to the handle. The rope rotates without being tangled but is limited to the movement of the handle. Molly’s design consists of a rope, a handle, and pivoting eye technology. This feature is a key part of the design and a complete distinction between Molly’s design and the standard design. This extra component has attached to the handle. The rope is then inserted through the pivoting eye technology and fastened. It allows the wire to follow the hand’s movement directly with a decreased degree of range, enabling speed and power and decreasing friction.

Molly was granted patent U.S. 7,789,809 in 2010, but that wasn’t the end of Molly’s entrepreneurial ventures. She began manufacturing and selling her product online through her business. Later in 2010, Molly was introduced to CrossFit (a high-intensity fitness program incorporating elements from several sports and types of exercise). Molly fell in love with the CrossFit community and quickly discovered the need for jump-rope education in the CrossFit world. In 2012 she opened her gym, totaling 10,000sqft. Half of the gym is devoted to CrossFit, and the other half to jump rope programs. Molly developed a progression-based seminar for CrossFit athletes so that they could learn how to be proficient in the movement. Molly has conducted over 800 jump rope seminars worldwide in CrossFit gyms

Within the same year, her patents were awarded, and the infringers were already manufacturing and selling her product in countries like China and India. Once they became mass-produced, she realized other cross-fit companies were buying her design from China and India. In an effort to license her technology in the US, she reached out to a large fitness company, known as ROGUE Fitness. Without hesitation, ROGUE Fitness took her design and began importing it from China and distributing and it without a license; Making an estimated yearly profit of tens of millions of dollars.

Quickly losing hope due to the financial and emotional burden, Molly almost chose not to fight. She saw the millions of dollars she was losing. She had just devoted her time and money to her new gym (costing $280,000) and could not develop the resources to fight it, as she had little success licensing the product due to its mass distribution already. In 2015 she closed her kids’ programs and CrossFit programs. But it was not long before her fighter instinct kicked in. She acquired an attorney and together they worked effortlessly to shut down overseas countries and earn licensing agreements with small CrossFit companies. Molly believed she could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel; She brought the fight to ROGUE Fitness. After all, she was awarded the patent, they are using her technology illegally, the patent system will protect them, right?

The constitution would agree, but the broken US Patent System and the corrupt Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) had another decision in mind. The PTAB was created in 2011 via the America Invents Act (AIA). Which was a radical overhaul of the U.S. patent system that had been the gold standard for over 200 years. Big tech lobbyists pushed this bill through and then convinced President Obama to appoint Michelle Lee from Google to run the USPTO. In the office, Lee wrote the rules and hired the “judges” who went on to find “errors” in the patents that Google and other Silicon Valley tech giants were accused of infringing. Molly is one of the thousands of other inventors that have had their patents invalidated by the U.S. Patent Office –which has invalidated 84% of the patents they have reviewed under the AIA.

ROGUE Fitness used the bought-off patent system in their favor. In response to Molly’s infringement suit, ROGUE Fitness sought invalidation of her patents. They pushed the battle from the Ohio courts to Washington DC’s PTAB, where the administrative court, filled with three government employees, who are lawyers and not technical experts, would decide the fate of her patents.

Molly was awarded her first patent by the USPTO in 2010 and another in 2012. It was at this time that the patent examiner believed that Molly’s invention of the Revolution Rope was indeed patentable. The patent examiner is someone who has experience and knowledge in the technology in which they are granting the patent. Granting a patent only occurs after rigorous examination. Molly’s patents endured 6 years of examination by three different examiners with several decades of cumulative experience. At one point during the examination, they rejected Molly’s application, holding that it was obvious to combine an older jump rope handle with a rotating bearing with another that had a swivel joint. Molly stipulated to change the wording. After doing so, the examiners were persuaded that her patent met the requirements, therefore granting the patent.

Molly, unfortunately, fell victim to the PTAB – AKA the “death squad.”

ROGUE filed a petition asking the PTAB to revoke her patents. The PTAB proceeded to invalidate her patents and overturn the examiner. The PTAB ruled that it was obvious to combine older styles of jump rope handles from 1978 and 1979.

PTAB prohibits most evidence, live testimony, cross-examination, and generally short circuits due process. The so-called trial took place in less than an hour (versus in a real court, the trial would take 1-2 weeks). This unjust court doesn’t even allow physical evidence which would have clearly shown the innovation that Molly created and patented. But, with these “judges” only appearing via remote video and not examining the evidence, there is no way to even attempt a just response.

Below is the 1978 technology that was considered by the USPTO examiners who determined that Molly’s design was a patentable improvement in 2010. The PTAB cited the exact same prior art in revoking her patents for obviousness in 2019.

No one is as experienced as Molly is in the field of jump-roping. Her experience, her resume, and her knowledge in the field, led her to develop a jump rope handle that increased speed, power, and reduced friction. This design was never introduced into the market before, nor even thought of by others within the industry. The market success of this jump rope handle goes to show just how non-obvious it was. Yet, the unqualified PTAB “judges” took it into their own, unqualified, inexperienced, ignorant hands to kill another startup, another inventor, and another American Dream.

ROGUE Fitness and other companies are still manufacturing and selling Molly’s design. So much so, that when you search “Molly Metz Jump Rope” ROGUE Fitness is the first to show.

Fortunately, Molly did not give up her company. Molly still manufactures and sells her jump ropes in the US -USA made and sold. She also still hosts seminars and coaches.

You can view her seminars and purchase directly from Molly at her website JumpNrope

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NO Ring Binder for Ring-less People

Ringless binders

Binder notebook in one
Yellow Student’s binder – notebook in one

A bunch of us out there is swearing on our lives to avoid the Ring binders at all costs.

Their brick-like quality, Rings terrorizing fingers and Sticking out like a mountain spine don’t make it a favorable item on our shelf, especially when they are half empty. Every time you buy one you have to choose among one of the available sizes, and of course, if you end up using them, they are always too big or too small and in the end, the rings misalign.

2 Spine Binder
2 Spine Binder – notebook in one

But there is hope on the horizon. The 133-year-old reign of the Ring binder may end. Do you see the picture here? The yellow page with a couple of round cutouts? It is a binder made from a piece of paper using flexible ties instead of rings. It stays flat regardless of the amount of paper you put in. It can bind just a few 120-150 pages, but his cousin’s 2 Spines ring-less Binder can gobble up to 350 pages. All of it without the unique Spine dominating the Ring-binder. And there is one more member of the same (Insane) family: “Spine-Less Binder” This fellow has an appetite. It can devour up to 800 pages and has one more quality. Singlehandedly replaces all sizes of Ring-binder. No more headaches about which one we should choose.

Spineless binder
Spineless binder with a tag

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Office Binders in the US vs binders in the EU

Ringless Binder with a BIG TAG
Ringless Binder with a BIG TAG

Except for the difference in the number of rings and holes, a wider variety of binders are available in the EU. Market divided between 27 countries, Each one with its language and with several producers and often national only distribution allows for a wider variety of available products you never have opportunity to ever see in the US. In the US, the market is devoid of any real competition, and with a small number of prominent sellers dominating the industry and Legal protection practically nonexistent thanks to the 2011 American invention Act as well rulings of the Supreme Court for years consistently taking away patent rights from small entities and individuals, the fringe products have no chance to exist. If it does, the damage comes quickly in the form of unauthorized copies sold by Chinese or domestic infringers.

But let’s go back to the EU Binders.

Strip binder mechanism

#1 Strip Binder or Loop File with prongs. With no single term describing

strip binder

this binder is challenging to find. Produced by four big companies.

1) Due to its construction can carry no more than 30-50 sheets.

2) Its flexible fork mechanism doesn’t survive rough handling. It can be damaged even in regular but prolonged use.

But it sells since there is always demand for an alternative to a ring binder.

 

#2 C/BOARD FILE W/STRING  I found it under the fascinating Polish

fascicle

name FASCYKUŁA  (Fascicle – in English) Simple, Old but practical. Made from 630 gsm Cardboard. Produced by several enterprises in the EU. Used to keep larger portions of archived documents.

 

 

 

#3  Q-Connect Transfer File 35mm Capacity Foolscap Buff. Wow, What a name!! Sounds like a Spanish Hidalgo.

Q-Connect Transfer File 35mm Capacity Foolscap Buff

Luckily their price is very short. According to reviews, they take in more pages than the venerable #1 strip binder.

In one review Mrs. Payroll wrote: “Needed some files to store clients’ end-of-year accounts and paperwork. I did not want to spend a lot on storage files. Use lever arch files all year and then transfer to these spring files, so they are less bulky for storage purposes.
Not sure the files are thick enough for everyday use. May need to spend a bit more. But ideal at 39p each for my needs!!”

 

 

That’s it for now.  More will come…

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Ringless binder

Ringless binder

Stack of Ringless, Spineless Binders with visible yellow tags marking the location of certain documents.

Have you noticed? The number of people looking for a: “ringless binder.” 

Try searching: I hate ring binders.  There are quite a few results. The answers are: “Binders For Non-Binder People,” Ring Binder vs. Bound Book, etc.

Users are dissatisfied with the Ring-binder. As the answer to the prayers, you may see a “Grip binder,” a look-a-like binder in the form of a box. Clipboards with Covers, zippers, etc. I dare to say the number of answers indicates the simple truth: There is No viable replacement for the Ring binder’s effectiveness.

Ringless Binder
Binder able to bind up to 350 pages. Using flexible ties instead of rings or prongs.

Ring binders with the spine sticking up and metal rings always in the way of hands trying to reach a page are uncomfortable to use. Plus, their brick-like form is quite painful to carry around, and it has a profound effect on the users,https://www.paperbee.net/shop/

That’s why they search in vain.

But there is One.

Binder and Notebook in one.

Multi-binder. Binding up to 350 pages with two sets of ties. It can be used as two subjects notebook.

No longer does anyone has to choose. It is made from a sheet of reinforced paper and is strong. Instead of rings, a flexible tie is used. It always stays flat regardless of the number of pages it binds. It comes in versions. One looks like a notebook but without a spine.

It binds from one up to 350 pages.

Another “Spineless” singlehandedly replaces all sizes of commonly available ring binders with different thicknesses and accommodates from 1 to 800 pages in one simple design.

Where can you find it?     In our SHOP

Ringless and decorative binder with up to 150 pages capacity
Ringless and decorative binder with up to 150 pages capacity

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Copyright violation = Crime. Patent theft = Civil Violation?

Have you noticed the warnings showing up sometimes on the screen of a bootlegged movie? $250,000 financial penalty and the promise of criminal persecution.

Same time shopping on the Amazon (The jungle river of fakes) you have a wide selection of sometimes obvious sometimes not fakes pushed by unscrupulous Chinese sellers as well as the Amazon management. You do not see the warning screen that receiving stolen (Intellectual) property will put you in legal jeopardy.  Instead of the $250k unexpected financial incentive to abandon the Amazon web catalog you are lulled in by the promise of great savings (and hidden but unexpected health expenses when you buy faked in China Bike helmet or Car child seat.) Bootlegged by Amazon Copy of Hermes bag gives you the appearance of luxury for a few bucks. You will be arrested for distributing faked goods on the street corner in any US city but Amazon is doing it officially in a full view.

America is doing great business transferring wealth to China in exchange for fakes and oversized bank accounts of Amazon’s owner. One person’s interest against the whole nation.

Where are the great American Designers, Inventors? Are they among the 50% of all applicants submitting their invention from the US to the German Patent office? No wonder. There are so many inventions you can not get patented in the US thanks to the infinite wisdom of the Supreme Court in competition with Congress injecting “Judicial exceptions” into the US  Patent Statues.

The Internet is full of people bragging about theft. Intellectual property theft supposedly should make the heroes.

They took the property from an evil entity. (You) Entity encroaching on their rights to possess everything for free, even other people’s property. New kind of Robin Hoods? No. They are Corporate Theft Heroes. sponsored and paid for by Amazons and Googles.

They stole somebody’s fruits of labor. Hard work and sometimes the last dime taken from the family budget. Work published in hopes to earn a buck. Possibly to pay for kids’ college expenses. Or inventor retirement so deserved after half of a century of hard work here and there.

No question as an Inventor you are a modern Outlaw in the US. To be exact according to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling inventors DO NOT OWN FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR. Their sweat and labor, Their expenses belong to the government. Invention? It is merely Government Franchise.  Only slave labor doesn’t belong to him/her.

So In FACT according to Supreme Court, YOU ARE A SLAVE.

The Supreme Court in its infinite wisdom follows the great example of philosophers who gave rise to the 20-century Soviet empire where everything was a “Government franchise”

According to this philosophy, your rights as individual means nothing when comes to the greater good of a bigger entity.  Nation, The Government. (eBay). Supreme Court strives to have the perfect realization of totalitarianism. Exactly like in the Communist country. I’ve lived through it myself. You are property of the State.

No wonder in the opinion of the 6 riders of Apocalypse women have no right to their own bodies.

The plight is shared by everyone in our country. If you want at least one positive change please call your congressman to support

 Congressman Massie Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act, H.R. 5874

Donate to U.S. inventor organization working on restoring U.S. patent laws.

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One of my websites shows a page with information about the existence of an invention. After a year or so of continuous (unsuccessful) internet attacks, the subscriber list grows exponentially consisting mainly of e-mails associated with Chinese websites like Alibaba, Ali Express, etc. Ready to steal and copy the product at the first sight of any useful information. Lately, I received an offer from a Chinese company to help them “DEVELOP THEIR PRODUCT” Obvious attempt to gain access to know-how. You submit them the proposal, and drawings and they are telling you: We get back to you…..

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The meaning in art. “Social distancing” a painting.

Social distancing

Looking at a piece of Art, everybody wonders what prompted the artist to execute the work. Unfortunately, too often, there is no other explanation than commercial.

For most of us, Art is a physical piece with a dollar value assigned. Too often, the dollar value is the most exciting aspect of the otherwise dull work.  

To be clear would like to explain the origin of the word.

Since “Art “for centuries was an expression of Meaning, meaning is the ultimate purpose of creative work. It expresses something. It tells the story and uplifts the spirit.

Contemporary Art often communicates the confusion and lack of purpose in an artist’s life. We all strive to have a meaningful life, but some of us replace the image of God with the dollar sign. No wonder Warhol did not bother with producing Art painting dollar signs; instead, when the Art is a substitute for a banknote.

As famous art critic Panofsky said, viewers receive only answers they are able to ask.

That’s why we are staring at old paintings in museums without a clue. The world of the spiritual life of our ancestors is gone.  We, the Huns, the primitives, are left behind without the key to unlocking the treasures. 

Our substitutes are weak and confusing, and the Art is mostly not up to the task of expressing the human problems of our times. Again you can compare the modern and the old sections of any museum to see the number of viewers.

Yet the need to express the spirit of our time exists. A few artists are trying to reach beyond the paint’s surface and convey a thought. Still, they are nonexistent in official art institutions, preferring sanitized and meaningless — prescribed noncontroversial work. 19-century academy made a 180-degree adjustment and exists now under the name of institutionalized “AVANTGARDE.” So AVANTGARDE is DEAD.

Let’s ignore the official and try to see the meaning of Art. Contemporary Art.

Any artist paying attention to the world beyond studio walls is trying to visualize reality. This simple task is often most challenging since the limit is the ‘imagination.” This particular skill is not in plentiful supply even among people calling themselves artists. That is why we have an endless supply of secondary works following or copying any artists with some financial success. Art by prescription dominates the landscape.

Below you can see a painting: “Social Distancing” 2021 piece graphically expresses the most crucial aspect of the time. The painting conveys the time of our lives unusually and attractively. It sticks out by itself, and no further comment is necessary. There is no question about originality of the work, or the skills of the artist. The sign of real art.

Many have no trouble picturing ourselves in this painting with degrees of separation.

Social Distancing

Acrylic on canvas 24″h x30″ wide. Canvas is attached to a light corrugated plastic panel. There is no need to cut a tree.

A cord is attached to the back of the panel to help with hanging. No frame is necessary.

The artist? Jacek Maria

Social Distancing

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I am missing.. The insects. Are we Next?

The bee

Do you remember the time not so long ago when you seriously considered installing a “bug shield” on your car since every drive ended with a windshield smeared with insects you met on the highway? Right now, the sky is clear, and even on the most extended trip, multiple hours spent on the road do not produce the same result. The long-time effort of Monsanto to pollute our environment has final effects. I am missing the bugs, Their night swirl around my headlights, The heart-stopping sound when the big one meets the windshield. Oh, I wish I drove slower. Now they are gone. Hardly anything is swimming in the air along my long trip on the highway. Even the mosquitos are missing from the morning scroll among the trees of a nearby forest preserve. What next? Who is next? As the remainder, I created a Bee as a paper pop-up in honor of our gone but not recognized insects/friends. What should I do next? Long lost, from my view, a Grasshopper? Pop-up paper monument? In a Coffin? Are we next?

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“United Inventors Association” The TROJAN HORSE of the Big.Tech.

There is well known saying about the devil wearing priest garb and using his tail to announce a mass.
Amazon as double faced devilA couple of weeks ago, looking at the “United Inventors Association” Washington DC prestigious address and the lack of real engagement with the inventors’ community, I became curious?

After requesting info among their sponsor supplying financial backing, you can see names like “Google” and “Amazon.” 

Google and Amazon support financially this quasi inventors organization to use it as a Trojan Horse to channel inventors attention and put through the Congress new and new anti-competitive measures to limit Inventors’ rights. Inventor is their competition. There is a real Inventor organization US INVENTOR, but they do not enjoy Big Tech’s financial support.

There is also Supreme Court issuing anti-inventor decisions, somehow always finding itself on the side of the Big Tech. 

Currently, there is no way to start an Invention supported business in the US and survive. Term “Efficient infringement” describes the method employed by big companies outright stealing marketable inventions knowing that no startup, no inventor can afford years-long and costing millions of challenges in US courts to reinforce inventor patent rights. In addition, a new institution was introduced in the US patent ecosystem in 2011 by the American invent Act; PTAB is Invalidating 84% of US-issued patents on behalf of big Chinese and US businesses.

On April 24, 2018, in Oil states against vs. Greener’s energy Supreme court decided that you, the citizen of the United States, do not have rights to fruits of your own labor? If you ever come out with an invention and spend time and money to develop it, the fruit of your labor is not yours anymore. According to the totalitarians from Supreme Court, patent/Invention is now a government “franchise.” 

There was historically a group of people in the US with no rights to the fruits of their labor. We called them slaves.

I used to live in two countries under communist regimes at the time, Poland and Czechoslovakia, and all property there was a government franchise. 

Step by step, Supreme Court transform this country into a new anti-democratic system. Not only “interpreting” US law but also usurping powers of Congress, issuing decisions contradicting existing statutes like, for example, introducing “judicial exemption.” gradually stripping US inventors from their rights to patent their discoveries.

There is, however real Inventor organization: US Inventor working to restore our property rights gutted by the Supreme court.

If you care about future of this country support US Inventor !!!

 

 

 
 
 
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The Other Art Fair. 2021 Art Fair by Saatchi Art.

The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art. “Dead Wood.” This is my impression after viewing the show assembled in Chicago in 2021. “Dead Wood” is a crowd of nice people, a bunch of images on the walls, and the overwhelming feeling of going through a furniture warehouse without the feelings the Great Art here and there is supposed to bring out. I found a trinket in the form of art books by Alexander, but not great images evoking any feeling in my heart.

There is no question I will forget them all once I walk out of this stable of ready and willing artists. SAD Feeling.

You may ask me what makes GREAT ART.

The answer is simple—the piece which sets your heart alive.

Years ago, I used to live in Prague. The beautiful city at the time under the communist regime, like most cities in Czechoslovakia, was a little bit drab and grey. However, I could easily spot the beautiful great historical buildings and history still present in and among them. Leaving the city, I was trying to take a little bit of the place’s charm with me, so I walked into a local gallery and bought a print showing the town. I found the same print two years later ln Poland, where I was trying to clean my apartment before moving to Rome. The print was so average that I forgot about it. 

A great piece of art has a distinctive personality. It stays with you, and you never forget about it.

My search for something beautiful in the overwhelming greyness of Czechoslovakia at the time brought out my dissatisfaction with myself for trying to find the “unique”. I was looking for uniqueness in a place it did not exist. I realized that I convinced myself to buy this piece because I was tired of my high aesthetic expectations and could not find anything, so I lowered my expectation to accept the artist and the art I bought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It would help if you remembered that at the time, like in any other country under a communist regime, the art and the artists present on the market were allowed to exist under the government’s strict control. Art reflects the spirit. Somebody who is not free and accepts ideological control can not create great art. The “Freedom” I am talking about is not the word “free” used in the west. This word has a separate and quite deep meaning. It reflects the deepest beliefs, a combination of honor and patriotism, not the freedom to do silly things. For people who lost it or are on edge, it Is a serious word.

Many of us looking for great art are taking a similar approach.

We lower our expectations to accept

what is ready and available. With the visual onslaught, it is very difficult to find something in the crowd to our satisfaction; The traditional criteria are gone (can you imagine music played by a performer who doesn’t know the instruments)? It is accepted in visual arts (for example, art by Alex Katz), So we get accidental quality performed by unskilled people. If you have any doubts, go to the contemporary art section of any museum and compare the number of present viewers with its historical area.

So where is the GREAT contemporary ART? It would be best if you learned to recognize it using traditional tools of logic, common sense, quality, and great visual appeal. Look into your heart, not in the market values.

 

I did not visit the “Other Art Fair” in 2022.

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Congressman Massie Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act, H.R. 5874

Finally, U.S. Inventors see a real attempt to right the wrong caused by the 2011 Leahy–Smith America Invents Act.

US SUPREME COURTAccording to the latest “findings’ by the U.S. Supreme Court, private property (patents) is not personal property but “GOVERNMENT FRANCHISE.”

 It means that your “fruits of labor” belong to the Government and the Government allows you to use them. Legally, you, the laborer (Inventor), are not a person in its rights but the “chattel” owned by the Government. 

Logically, In simple English translation, according to the Supreme Court, the laborer (Inventor) is a “SLAVE.”

You will not find a better description of the system we used to see behind the “IRON CURTAIN.”

COMMUNISM is the name of the system I know from my experience and forced to leave. Everything there was a “Government franchise” like the SUPREME interprets. Suppose we intend to limit beneficiaries of any economic system to just a few. Let’s name it Communist Party or Big Tech. The outcome is always the same. 

Astonishing is the fact that our right-leaning U.S. Supreme Court, in its relentless madness trying to serve the BIG TECH, comes to such a conclusion. The 2011 Leahy–Smith America Invents Act was a significant step in eliminating Inventor Rights. It follows a long list of similar actions, for example, where eBay can disregard other people’s property rights and use it at will. From invention ownership, it is just a tiny step for Supreme Court to take away your other private property rights. Civil forfeiture law is an example of our reality. It exists in direct defiance of the U.S. constitution. Supreme Court “legislating” from the bench puts itself in direct competition with U.S. congress, with no hesitation encroaching on Congress domain, without hesitation misinterpreting the statutes to apply its homegrown philosophy. Everything in the name of limiting the size of the Government (potentially acting in the name of constituents ) and allowing the big enterprise to exist with no competition. And this is the GOAL—unrestricted Domination. Today Russia or Google or Facebook, there is no difference in their ambitions. The only difference is their tools. 

Congressman Massie Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act, H.R. 5874, sponsored already by a number of legislators, brings back the patent laws for 200 years, making the U.S. patent law worldwide gold standard.

Signing 2011 AIAIn its current state, it is Not a Gold Standard anymore. The 2011 American Invent Act, among others introduced in our reality PTAB (known as Patent Death Squad), USPTO division examining issued patents and INVALIDATING 84% of them. The cost of legally defending a patent upfront of just this “tribunal” is estimated at $450,000 a pop, with unlimited challenges designed to finish off financially the patent holder.

Big tech with Deep Pockets doesn’t need any Patent protection relying on its Market domination. The current system allows them to squash easily any garage-based inventor and steals his invention. With unaffordable for Inventors/startups, legal costs involved, “Efficient Infringement” become standard practice.

In short, as of today is safer not to apply for a patent in the U.S. since this document is not giving you any real rights or protection. You are exposing yourself to financial ruin by publishing your work since every valuable invention will be successfully challenged by moneyed competition. There is simply no upside for the Inventor. Even if USPTO denies you a patent, 18 months from the application submission date, they still publish your work for the world to see and use. 

Do you want the U.S. to remain a hub of innovation? China is currently modifying its patent laws to match the model of the German law. They are already dominating in certain areas and competing with the U.S.; they use the PTAB fully to their advantage. Support H.R. 5874

Donate to U.S. inventor organization working on restoring U.S. patent laws.