French v. Colby

M1LLER, Associate Justice.

This is a proceeding under R.S. 4915.1 The invention in dispute is an integrally woven ladder web for Venetian blinds, the. web consisting of two vertical outer bands having cross-straps therein on which the slats of a Venetian blind may rest. Prior to the present invention, when two vertical outer bands were made of different colors for decorative purposes, the interweaving of threads of the two colors to make the cross-straps resulted in showing specks of different colors in the areas where the cross-straps were bound-in with the outer bands. The present invention…