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HI. Do you see what I have in my hands? Ringless Binder.

Small things makes big difference. You hardly notice a pen in your hand. a Notebook.  A Binder. The small is changing our lives and we do not even notice. What would I use 50 years ago? 100? Quite often we do not see the small things busy with ongoing life.

and Here it is…

Ringless Binder is one of this things. More legend than real product, since many users dissatisfied with Sticking out rings and discs looked for alternative. The obvious one was a “Ring-less Binder” And after 180 years of Ring binder dominance here it is.  The small , tiny, slim and unobtrusive RING-LESS.

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Would you use Ring Binder, or Ring-less binder?

Have you ever 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 were 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 out like a mountain, blocking the view and taking up your storage space even if it’s half empty.

 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 discuss: 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 the 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.


Ringless Binder with two spines
Ringless Binder with two spines and 350 leaflets capacity

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:

Spineless Binder for two or three hole punched leaflets.
Spineless Binder for two or three hole punched leaflets.

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.

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 see it. Certainly, it is time to offer something better than the museum quality 133year-old contraption (ring binder) created at the time the first steam engines entered the world. For those paying attention, it 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 offerings. That is why many new products already available elsewhere will never have any chance of showing up in the US. As an inventor, I have bigger hopes in the EU since there is no anti-patent 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 the US.


IMG 20241010 142715bI know well the plight of independent inventors in the US.

The Supreme Court has made several inventions: “Patent ineligible” in direct defiance of Congress-made statutes and the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. Plus, there is PTAB. Established by the 2011 Leahy Smith American invention Act, patent review board is known as the “Patents Killer squad.” PTAB is invalidating 84% of issued 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 want competition.

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

Do we wonder why 50% of foreign fillers in the German Patent office are from the US? With the EU unitary 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 we are losing.

It would help if you considered it your patriotic duty to support HR 5874, Senator Massie’s RALIA bill, by tossing away all the misgivings of the Supreme Court into the US patent law and creating conditions to restore US competitiveness.

According to the Supreme Court Teft is legal in the US


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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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.