Appeal No. 2000-0179
Application No. 08/923,774
appellant's invention was made to modify the pivotal
connection of the Sides receptacle wall 25 to the basket frame
to the arrangement taught by Hummer for the purpose of
providing fixed transverse support to the vertical wire
members thus strengthening the upper end of the rear seat
member (answer, page 6) and appellant does not contest this
position.
As for the provision of a second seat section, the
examiner takes the position that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellant's
invention to provide multiple seats in tandem one in front of
the other in sides as taught by Dunkley for the purpose of
carrying a second passenger. For the reasons discussed above,
we do not share the examiner's view that Dunkley provides such
suggestion.
As discussed, supra, Hummer provides no suggestion to add
a second seat section as recited in claim 18 in tandem with
the seat structure of Sides and, thus, does not cure the
above-noted deficiency of the combination of Sides and
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