Appeal No. 96-0324
Application 08/045,747
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. See
RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440,
1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
As a further point, we note, as appellant has, that
Smith also does not include a teaching or disclosure of the
"struts" set forth in claim 1, and clearly does not have the bend
that extends the furcations in a forward direction "located in
the lower half of said furcations" as set forth in dependent
claims 2 and 8 on appeal.
With further regard to independent claim 1, we must
agree with appellant that there is no disclosure whatsoever in
Smith of providing a bend in the lower limbs of the furcations of
a bicycle fork that extends said furcations in a forward
direction and "converts a long fork to a twenty inch fork," as
set forth in the claim. Based on appellant's disclosure, it is
clear that this limitation requires a long fork (i.e., a 26 inch
springer fork) that is subsequently provided with a bend at a
location in the lower limbs of the furcations to thereby convert
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