Appeal No. 1997-0074
Application No. 08/123,092
would be the case. In this regard, we again note the
examiner's opinion that in these references the handle is
separately made and covered and then is attached to the
supporting substrate. While the door and the panel disclosed
by Mills are in juxtaposition once they are installed in the
vehicle, the essence of the Mills teaching is merely covering
a plurality of separate objects in a single pass, and then
cutting them apart for separate use. Therefore, from our
perspective, the combined teachings of the first three of the
applied references would have provided no suggestion to one of
ordinary skill in the art to attach a door handle to a
substrate that has a handle hole and then to cover this
structure with a single sheet of material by any means, much
less by differential pressure. Although Michel discloses
attaching two elements together by using differential pressure
to form a material about them, it still provides no suggestion
to do so to form a composite article comprising a handle and a
substrate having a handle hole.
The mere fact that the prior art structure could be
modified does not make such a modification obvious unless the
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