Appeal No. 2006-1085
Application No. 10/392,209
supporting and transporting a load, whether such load is in the form of a
human being or other items, and wherein the wheeled cart or scooter is
capable of use for recreational and physical education purposes, i.e., would
permit a single person to move across the floor while seated on a single
cart/scooter, or to move across the floor in a prone or supine position while
laying on a plurality of such carts/scooters that are interconnected in an
abutting relationship. As for the John patent, we do not see the interlocking
modular pallet therein as being within appellant’s field of endeavor, but we
do consider this reference to be reasonably pertinent to the particular
problem with which the inventor was concerned.
As was noted on page 1 of the specification, the particular problem
addressed by appellant was the need to replace the connecting rod
arrangement for gym scooters known in the prior art with an arrangement
that would allow interconnection of one or more scooters together in a close
abutting relationship, while avoiding the need for a separate connection
element that may become lost or be easily damaged. John provides a
teaching of a connection arrangement (e.g., Figs. 3, 4, 4A, 5 and 6) for
permitting modular sections of a load carrying pallet to be easily joined
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