Appeal No. 96-3854
Application No. 08/027,872
pending in this application.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The claims on appeal are directed to an apparatus (claims
1-3 and 5) and a method (claims 6, 7, 9 and 10) for monitoring
the deposition on a membrane in a reverse osmosis system, to a
reverse osmosis system including means for monitoring reverse
osmosis membrane deposition (claims 11 and 13-15) and to a
method for reverse osmosis of a fluid stream including the
step of passing the fluid stream through an apparatus for
monitoring membrane deposition (claims 16 and 18-21). Claims
1, 6, 11 and 16 are representative of the claimed subject
matter. Claims 6, 11 and 16 are correctly reproduced in the
appendix attached to appellants' corrected brief filed on
September 5, 1995 (Paper No. 16) . The copy of claim 1 in the2
We note that strict antecedent basis is lacking for the recitation of2
"the filtration system" in paragraph (c) of claim 11. Correction of this
informality is in order upon return of the application to the jurisdiction of
the examiner.
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