Appeal No. 98-0108 Page 6
Application No. 08/598,795
As disclosed in column 1, lines 63-68, of the Vom Brauke
specification, the hand grip sections 5 are inclined
laterally inwardly toward each other for the advantageous
purpose of allowing an operator to move his hands laterally
inwardly from a collision zone to avoid contact with other
carts or platform carriages as they are called in the Vom
Brauke specification. Such an express suggestion would have
been ample motivation for one of ordinary skill in the art
to incline each of Kazmerchek’s side grip sections laterally
inwardly at an acute angle to thereby establish a complement
which is an obtuse angle with respect to Kazmerchek’s
horizontal central portion for the purpose of allowing an
operator to move his hands away from a possible collision
zone.
The Kegley reference discloses a handle which is similar
to Kazmerchek’s handle and also appellant’s handle in that
it has a central horizontally extending portion 17 and two
side sections 13a and 13b extending downwardly and
rearwardly from opposite ends of the central portion.
Kegley is relevant for its recognition of utilizing the side
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