Appeal No. 96-2094
Application 08/282,783
rejection of claims 2, 3 and 5-14. No other claims are
pending in the application. An amendment filed subsequent to
the final rejection (Paper No. 40, filed October 13, 1995)
effecting several minor changes in claim language has been
approved for entry by the examiner (see advisory letter (Paper
No. 42, mailed November 14, 1995)); however, the amendment has
not been clerically entered. The examiner should attend to
this matter when the application is returned to his
jurisdiction.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a control lever for
controlling a cable actuated brake of a bicycle, and in
particular to a control lever wherein the force transmitted to
the cable by the lever varies in accordance with the position
of the lever. Claim 12 is representative of the appealed
subject matter and reads as follows:2
2In claims 3 and 9, next to the last line of each,
“divided” should be inserted after “cable” to improve the
readability of the claim. In claim 12, we understand “the
stroke start end” and “the stroke finish end” in the last two
lines thereof as referring to, respectively, the “stroke start
position” and the “stroke end position” recited earlier in the
claim. In claim 10 “said cable connecting portion” should be
changed to “said cable connector” for consistency with the
terminology employed in claim 12, from which claim 10
ultimately depends. In claim 13, line 20, “the cable
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