Appeal No. 1999-1787
Application No. 08/797,521
through 20 have been canceled.
Appellant’s invention relates to a Venetian blind, and
more specifically to ladder and lift cord arrangements for
Venetian blinds. A copy of representative claims 1, 24 and 28
on appeal, as reproduced from the Appendix to appellant’s
brief, is attached to this decision.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Simon 5,060,709 Oct. 29,
1991
Claims 25 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph as being indefinite.
Claims 1 through 8 and 21 through 29 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Simon.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's full statement of
the above-noted rejections and the conflicting viewpoints
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