Doane Paper Version 2.0

A year and a half ago I created Doane Paper a patent pending stationery design that incorporates grid and ruled lines onto a single sheet. The idea came about when at a product design meeting lunch break I noticed that half the room was using legal pads while the other half used grid paper notebooks. After compiling all of the user feedback over the last year and a half we decided to tweak DP in a major way. We lightened the colors of the design by a whopping 75 percent! The new Doane Paper version 2.0 design makes for a much improved user experience by creating a writing environment with maximum contrast between pen/pencil output and the DP design itself. The new version 2.0 design can be downloaded in PDF or JPEG format for free from doanepaper.com. You can also buy a 3 pack for $8.95 with free US shipping for any order of 3 packs or more.

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Comments

[Brigitte]

I can't understand this novelty or how it could get a patent. It's existed in Europe for a LONG time, and it's called Seyes. Clairefontaine notebooks, among others, offer this pattern...

Can anyone enlighten me on the difference?

[jane]

"Patent pending" means an application has been filed, not that a patent has been granted. -- Nonetheless a cool product. I ordered some to practice calligraphy. I like to practice on lined notepads. The grid lines will help me think about spacing... Too lazy to line my own paper.

Any more information, links for the European products?

[chad doane]

The United States Patent and Trade Mark office has issued patents for stationery designs in the past. In our research for the Doane Paper patent we discovered a patented stationery design that closely mirrors the same concept of "dual purpose stationery" that Doane Paper holds. The patented stationery design that we found was a type of pre-press writing sheet that was patented around the turn of the 20th Century.

Here's a link to the patent filing image:
http://doanepaper.com/osdpbig.jpg

The idea was for the author to layout the type using the horizontal dotted lines while laying out illustrations using both the vertical and horizontal solid lines.

[Brigitte]

This is one example of Seyes pattern : http://tinyurl.com/3ygc9h
(sort of middle of the page, on the right).

It's actually hard to get regular ruled paper in most France stationery stores, everything is Seyes. Just use Google to search for images with the keyword Seyes and you'll get the idea...

They're not so common in North America, but usually if a store has lots of Clairefontaine it's likely that you'll find some. Around French private schools (in North America) is a great place to look because French teachers tend to use it a lot... French kids in elementary schools usually write with fountain pens and write script on Seyes paper.

[jgodsey]

well the website's cool anyway

[jane]

Thanks Brigitte for the Seyes information. Fascinating. I followed some links and actually printed out a page. Fun but not something I can use. No squares.
Best of luck to Chad and company.