Ex parte SEKSARIA et al. - Page 12




          Appeal No. 1998-1878                                      Page 12           
          Application No. 08/543,734                                                  



               In addition, the handle control “is designed and located               
          so that the functions to be controlled are sense oriented”                  
          (col. 1, lines 22-24).  To this end Schultz teaches that                    
               [t]he mounting bracket 52 is located at a bias to                      
               the longitudinal axis of the truck, the vertical                       
               portion 56 thereof being formed to extend forwardly                    
               and downwardly so that the handle control portion                      
               62,68,70 is designed to be located at its most                         
               convenient and comfortable position in the                             
               operator's compartment. Manual control is effected                     
               whether operating the truck in a forward or rearward                   
               direction by movement of the handle control along                      
               the downward tilt and inward bias of shaft 60; this                    
               provides good operator "sense" control as the handle                   
               is actuated forwardly, downwardly and inwardly, or                     
               rearwardly, upwardly and outwardly along shaft 60 to                   
               control the various hydraulic functions of the lift                    
               truck . . . [col. 2, line 63 through col. 3, line                      
               9].                                                                    

               The examiner describes Habiger as disclosing all of the                
          limitations of the claims, except for the environment of a                  
          powered industrial lift truck (final rejection, page 4;                     
          answer, page 4).  Schultz is cited to show the lift truck                   
          environment (id.).  It is the examiner’s position (answer,                  
          page 4) that                                                                
               [i]t would have been obvious . . . to modify Habiger                   
               such that the single lever control was installed in                    
               a lift truck in view of the teaching of Schultz et                     








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