Appeal No. 98-0108 Page 7
Application No. 08/598,795
sections as hand grip sections, thus suggesting the
utilization of Kazmerchek’s side sections for the same
purpose to reinforce our finding of utilizing Kazmerchek’s
side sections as hand grips.
With regard to appellant’s argument on pages 6 and 9 of
the brief, it is of no moment that the Vom Brauke reference
lacks a teaching or suggestion of locating “an upper
interconnected cross member between the grip portions 5.6”3
(emphasis in the original; brief, page 6). Instead, the
Kazmerchek reference is relied upon for a teaching of
connecting the upper ends of the hand grip sections to the
central portion of the handle, while the Vom Brauke
reference is relied upon for its express suggestion of
inclining the hand grip sections of the handle laterally
inwardly toward each other as discussed supra. In the final
analysis, the test for obviousness is what the combined
teachings of the applied references, when taken as a whole,
3We interpret appellant’s argument to mean that Vom
Brauke’s central horizontally extending handle portion is not
connected to the upper ends of the hand grip sections. Claim
1, however, does not specifically recite such an arrangement.
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