Appeal No. 98-0108 Page 8
Application No. 08/598,795
would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art.
In re Keller, 642 F.2d 413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA
1981). For the foregoing reasons, we are satisfied that the
combined teachings of the applied references in the present
case would have suggested the subject matter of claim 1 to
one of ordinary skill in the art to warrant a conclusion of
obviousness under the test set forth in Keller.
We will therefore sustain the § 103 rejection of claim
1. We will also sustain the § 103 rejection of dependent
claims 2 through 4, 9, 16 and 17 because these claims have
not been argued separately of claim 1 and therefore fall
with claim 1. See In re Nielson, 816 F.2d 1567, 1572, 2
USPQ2d 1525, 1528 (Fed. Cir. 1987) and In re Burckel, 592
F.2d 1175, 1178-79, 201 USPQ 67, 70 (CCPA 1979).
We will also sustain the § 103 rejection of dependent
claim 18. In column 1, lines 63-65, Vom Brauke expressly
suggests that the hand grip sections may be inclined by as
much as 30 degrees with respect to a longitudinally
extending vertical plane, thus making the complement, namely
the obtuse angle between each hand grip section and central
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