Appeal No. 96-3854 Application No. 08/027,872 appendix is incorrect . Claim 1 correctly reads as follows:3 4 1. An apparatus for monitoring membrane deposition in a reverse osmosis system comprising: an exterior body defining an interior compartment receiving a fluid stream; and a support membrane positioned in the interior compartment removably supporting a reverse osmosis membrane coupon parallel to the direction of fluid flow of the fluid stream through the interior compartment allowing the collection of deposition present within the fluid stream on the reverse osmosis membrane coupon. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Madden 3,400,575 Sep. 10, 1968 Bach et al. (Bach) 4,389,879 Jun. 28, 1983 The following rejections are before us for review: Claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 through 11, 13 through 3The word "for" in line 4 of claim 1, as it appears in the appendix, was canceled by Paper No. 7. 4As a result of a typographical error in Paper No. 5, the original recitation in claim 1 of a "support member" was changed to read "support membrane." The error was carried over to Paper No. 7. Correction of claim 1 in Paper No. 7 is in order upon return of this application to the jurisdiction of the examiner. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007