Appeal No. 1996-3028
Application No. 08/270,429
Paper No. 7). Claims 1, 3-14, 20 and 23 are the only claims1
remaining in this application.
According to appellant, the invention is directed to a
reverse osmosis process for making a non-milk dairy beverage
from a starting material selected from milk, defatted milk,
whey, defatted whey, permeate, retentate, defatted retentate,
and condensed or evaporated water from dairy starting
materials (Brief, page 2). Claim 1 is illustrative of the
subject matter on appeal and is reproduced below:
1. A method of making a non-milk dairy beverage
comprising the steps of:
subjecting material selected from the group
consisting of
milk,
defatted milk,
whey,
defatted whey,
permeate, retentate and defatted retentate of the
filtration of a dairy starting material and condensate of
the evaporated water from a dairy starting material to
reserve osmosis to separate a pure dairy water permeate
therefrom;
combining the dairy water with a non-milk additive
1It is noted that the Advisory Action is incorrectly
listed as Paper No. 6 and erroneously omits claim 23 from the
claims rejected.
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