Appeal No. 96-0324
Application 08/045,747
said long fork into a 20 inch curved fork that is usable on a
stock 20 inch bicycle frame with 20 inch wheels on the front
and rear, and which provides the illusion of a longer and lower,
low-rider look, but maintains the same standard safe ground
clearance of the frame and the pedals as existed before the
specially bent fork was added thereto. Note particularly,
page 4, lines 6-10, lines 17-19 and lines 29-30; page 5,
lines 3-6; page 8, lines 15-20; and page 11, lines 10-12 of
appellant's specification. Given that there is no disclosure in
Smith which addresses the structural limitation of claim 1
concerning converting a long fork to a twenty inch fork, we fail
to see how Smith can be said to anticipate the invention as
defined in appellant's claim 1 on appeal.
With further regard to independent claim 7, we are in
agreement with appellant's argument on pages 6-7 of the brief
that the term "springer fork" is a standard term in the bicycle
art which would be recognized by one of ordinary skill in the art
as identifying the type of fork assembly shown generally in
appellant's Figure 6 and in the Schwinn patent cited and applied
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