Appeal No. 2002-1589
Application 09/280,180
the applied prior art references, and to the respective positions
articulated by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we have made the determinations which follow.
Looking first at the examiner's rejection of claims 1
through 6, 12, 18, 20 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Kund (Figs. 10-14), we note that independent claim
1 on appeal is directed to a gear indicating apparatus (10) “for
coupling to a control cable having a cable end protuberance
attached thereto” comprising: a movable gear indicator (e.g.,
104), a member (e.g., 154) for moving the movable gear indicator
and having a cable terminating structure (e.g., 290), wherein the
cable terminating structure includes a first wall (400) defining
a first detenting structure (420) for receiving the cable end
protuberance, a second wall (404) spaced apart from the first
wall, and wherein at least one of the first wall and second wall
includes “a resilient portion for deflecting in response to a
pulling force applied to the cable terminating structure by the
cable end protuberance so as to release the cable end
protuberance from the first detenting structure” (e.g., Figs. 14-
15).
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