Appeal No. 2001-0401 Page 9
Application No. 09/019,451
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time the invention was made to modify the
fishing cart of Gonzalez to include the auxiliary wheel
assembly of Bovenzi so as to allow the fishing cart [to]
be used alternately as a push cart.
We agree.
The appellant's argument (brief, pp. 7-11) that one of
ordinary skill in the art would not have been inclined to
modify the fishing cart of Gonzalez to incorporate an
auxiliary wheel assembly as recited in claims 1, 17 and 25 is
unpersuasive for the reasons that follow.
First, it is our view that the combined teachings of
Gonzalez and Bovenzi provide the necessary teaching, reason,
suggestion, or motivation to have modified Gonzalez to include
an auxiliary wheel assembly as suggested by Bovenzi so as to
allow the fishing cart to be used as a push cart. In that
regard, it is our view that the Bovenzi's teachings of making
a hand truck that is moveable in its vertical position (see
Figure 1) to be also moveable when in the horizontal position
(see Figure 2) so as to useable as a push cart would have
provided a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the
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