Appeal No. 2000-1508 Page 16
Application No. 08/810,442
1983); Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d760, 771, 218 USPQ
781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983)).
Here, we find that Gammie’s decoders also receive all
externally supplied input via a single port, viz., a satellite
link port; its keys and program content are received only via the
single port. Specifically, “[t]he scrambled programs and the key
are transmitted through satellite link 105, and received by
conditional-access decoder 106.” Col. 2, ll. 45-57. Although
Figure 5 depicts two paths for programs and keys, the depiction
is merely functional. The Figure also shows that the programs
and keys are both transmitted via a single satellite link 505.
Furthermore, “‘[e]very patent application and reference relies to
some extent upon knowledge of persons skilled in the art to
complement that [which is] disclosed. . . .’” In re Bode, 550
F.2d 656, 660, 193 USPQ 12, 16 (CCPA 1977) (quoting In re
Wiggins, 488 F.2d 538, 543, 179 USPQ 421, 424 (CCPA 1973)).
Those persons “must be presumed to know something” about the art
“apart from what the references disclose.” In re Jacoby, 309
F.2d 513, 516, 135 USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA 1962). Here, based on the
showing that the programs and keys are both transmitted via the
single satellite link 505, we find that person skilled in the art
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