Appeal No. 98-1457 Page 7
Application No. 08/530,006
ordinary skill in the art that would have led that individual
to combine the relevant teachings of the references to arrive
at the claimed invention. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071,
1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
The appellant argues that the applied prior art does not
suggest the claimed subject matter. We agree.
All the claims under appeal require a vehicular wheel
suspension link to include an elongated member formed of a
thermoplastic material and provided with an intermediate
section having an I-shaped cross-sectional configuration.
However, it is our opinion that these limitations are not
suggested by the applied prior art. In that regard, while
Crandall does disclose a vehicular wheel suspension link,
Crandall does not teach or suggest forming the link of a
thermoplastic material and providing the link with an
intermediate section having an I-shaped cross-sectional
configuration. To supply these omissions in the teachings of
Crandall, the examiner made determinations (answer, pages 5, 6
and 8) that these difference would have been obvious to an
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