Appeal No. 2000-1732
Application No. 08/972,852
a first vertically arrayed set of slots, and with each slat
having a second slot on one of the outside edge and the inside
edge, with the second slots forming a second vertically
arrayed set of slots, first and second ladders having
respective opposite cord type rails and rungs, a first pair of
lift cords with one of the lift cords running through the
first set of slots, a second pair of lift cords with one of
the lift cords running through the second set of slots, the
rungs of each respective ladder each being aligned above one
another, the first pair of lift cords being engaged with a
plurality of rungs of the first ladder and the second pair of
lift cords being engaged with a plurality of the rungs of the
second ladder such that the rails of the ladders fold
substantially in a plane parallel to the edges of the slats
when the lift cords draw the slats together.
We now address the Simon reference as applied in the
first ground of rejection.
A reading of the patent to Simon reveals to us that it is
not anticipatory of the venetian type blind of claim 1 under
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