Appeal No. 1997-1636 Page 13
Application No. 08/204,996
....” (Id.) The examiner replies, “It would have been
obvious ... to provide for the output data to be directed to
the input, because it would allow for faster processing of
recursive or repetitive loop functions.” (Examiner’s Answer
at 8.) We agree with the examiner.
The appellants err in considering the prior art in less
than its entirety. As aforementioned, every reference relies
on the knowledge of persons skilled in the art to complement
its disclosure. Bode, 550 F.2d at 660, 193 USPQ at 16. Such
persons must be presumed to know something about the art apart
from what the references teach. Jacoby, 309 F.2d at 516, 135
USPQ at 319.
Berlin does in fact teach that a daisy strobe signal
propagates from one daisy unit 28 to a next daisy unit 28.
Col. 6, ll. 36-38. When the last, i.e., the rightmost, unit
outputs the signal, the signal is directed back to the input
of the first, i.e., the leftmost, unit. Fig. 3. Official
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