Appeal No. 98-0108 Page 2
Application No. 08/598,795
Appellant’s claimed invention relates to a handle for
pushing or pulling a cart. According to claim 1, the only
independent claim on appeal, the handle comprises a
generally horizontally disposed central portion (40) and two
hand grip sections (46, 48) connected to opposite ends of
the central portion and extending at obtuse angles from the
central portion. Claim 1 recites that the central portion
and the hand grip portions are in a common plane (i.e., lie
along a common plane) at an acute angle with respect to a
vertical plane. Appellant’s hand grip sections are
therefore inclined forwardly in a longitudinal direction and
also laterally inwardly toward each other.
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to appellant’s
brief.2
2Dependent claims 3 and 4 recite that each of the hand
grip sections is attached to the cart. According to
appellant’s specification, however, the hand grip sections
are not directly connected to the cart. Instead, they are
connected to the attachment sections 52 and 56, and the
attachment sections, in turn, are connected to the cart. In
light of this description in the specification, we have
interpreted the subject matter recited in claims 3 and 4 to
be broad enough to encompass a structure in which the hand
grip sections are indirectly connected to the cart through
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