Appeal No. 1999-1787
Application No. 08/797,521
examiner’s conclusion of obviousness is based on hindsight
reconstruction using appellant’s own disclosure as a blueprint
to arrive at the claimed subject matter, it follows that we
will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claim 24 Simon.
Claims 25 through 27 depend from claim 24. Accordingly,
since the teachings and suggestions found in Simon would not
have made the subject matter as a whole of independent claim
24 obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
appellant’s invention, it follows that dependent claims 25
through 27 would likewise have been unobvious over Simon.
Therefore, we also refuse to sustain the examiner’s rejection
of dependent claims 25 through 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
The last of the examiner’s rejections for our review is
that of claims 28 and 29 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based on
Simon. Independent claim 28 is directed to yet another aspect
of appellant’s Venetian blind wherein the slats of the blind
include substantially vertically aligned notches in the rear
edges thereof and wherein the aligned notches have positioned
therein “a riser cord and a lift cord.” While the examiner’s
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