Appeal No. 2000-1732
Application No. 08/972,852
speculative as to how the ladder rails of Simon would fold.
For the reasons given, the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
is not sound and cannot be sustained.
The respective rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based upon
Simon alone and Simon in view of Abraham likewise cannot be
sustained.
Simply stated, the rationales and evidence applied in these
rejections does not overcome the deficiencies of the Simon
teaching articulated above.
This panel of the board turns now to a consideration of
the Walker patent as applied in the examiner's rejection of
claim 1.
We find that, unlike the claimed venetian type blind that
includes first and second ladders having opposite cord type
rails and rungs, rungs of each respective ladder being aligned
above one another, and first and second pairs of lift cords
engaging a plurality of the rungs of the first and second
ladders, respectively, such that the rails of the ladders fold
substantially in a plane parallel to the edges of the slats
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