“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China 100080 Issuing Date: AL Te oe DR GE HH 21 SPOR ALATA A HE 503 3 E FE TF BUC BRS FHF (010-65178080) Application No. or Publication No.:202110419294.1 Issue No.s Applicant or Patentee: Chinese Institute of Building Design, Inc Title of Invention: Ground Water Purification Method and System First Office Action 1,Billpon the request of substantive examination of the applicant, in accordance with Article 35.1 of the Patent Lav, the State Intellectual Property Office per‘ examination for the aforesaid application for a patent for invention. Gln accordance with Article 35.2 of the Patent Law, the State Intellectual Property Office proceeds to examine the aforesaid application for a patent for invention as to its substance rms the substantive on its own initiative. 2. OThe applicant requests on the basis of: Othe applicant has submitted the copy of previous application documents for the first filed, which has been verified by the original receiving organization. Othe applicant has not submitted the copy of previous application documents for the first filed, which has been verified by the original receiving organization, In accordance with Article 30 of the Patent Law, the claim to the right of priority shall be deemed not to have been made. 3. QQUpon examination, the amenduent submitted by the applicant on___,shall not be accepted for not in conformity with Rule 51.1 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law. 4. Application files for examination Boriginal application documents. Documents submitted on the date of submission of divisional application. OFollowing application documents: 5. fhe decision of this Office Action has been made without sear BEhe decision of this Office Action has been made based on search. ®he following reference documents are cited in this Office Action (the serial number(s) of which will be used in follow-on examination) = Xo, | Pocument nunber or Document publication date sith tannlication date of the conflict 1 CN 1116465894 20200911 210401 2010.24p The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China 2 CN 1013015484 20081112 748A 20190111 cN 1091 6. Conclusive opinions of the examination: About the description: ithe application falls into the scope of subject matter vhich is nonpatentable according to Article 5 of the Patent Law, the deseription fails to comply with the pro Othe description fails to comply with the provisions of Article 33 of the Patent Lav. Othe drafting of the description fails to comply with Rule 17 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law, sions of article 26.3 of the Patent Law. o About the claims Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Article 2.2 of the Patent Law, Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Article 9.1 of the Patent Law, the claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the novelty requested by Article 22.2 of the Patent Law. a BThe claim(s). the Patent Law. Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the applicability requested by Article 22.4 of the Patent Lax, Othe claims) fall(s) into the scope of subject matter which is nonpatentable according to Article 25 of the Patent Lax. Ofail(s) to comply with the inventive steps requested by Article 22.3 of Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Article 26.4 of the Patent Law. Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Article 31.1 of the Patent Law. Othe claim(s). fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Article 33 of the Patent Law, Othe claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Rule 19 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law. the claim(s) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Rule 20 of the Implement ing Regulations of the Patent Law Othe claims) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Rule 21 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law. Othe claims) fail(s) to comply with the provisions of Rule 22 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law. a Che application fails to comply with the provisions of Article 26.5 of the Patent Law or Rule 26 of its Implementing Regulations. the application fails to comply with the provisions of Article 20.1 of the Patent Law. Othe divisional application fails to comply with the provisions of Rule 43.1 of the 210401 2010.2“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law. ‘The detailed analyses of the above conclusive opinions refer to the text of this Office Action, the basis of the conclusive opinions, the examiner suggests: the applicant should amend the application documents according to the text of this Office Action, the applicant should state the reasons why the patent application should be granted in the observation, and amend the part which fails to comply with the provisions according to this Office Action, otherwise the patent application should not be granted. Bilhe substantive content that might be granted can not be found in the application, if the applicant does not state the reasons or the stated reasons are not sufficient, the application shall be rejected. oO 8. The applicant should pay attention to the followings statements: (1) In accordance with Article 37 of the Patent Law, the applicant should submit the written opinion within four months from the date of receipt of this Office Action, If, without any justified reason, the time limit for reply is not met, the application shall be deemed to have been withdrawn, (2) The amendment of the application document by the applicant should be in conformity with Article 33 of the Patent Lax, and it should not exceed the scope specified in the initial description and claims, Meanwhile, the amendment of the application document by applicant should be in conformity with Rule 51.3 of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law, and in accordance with this Office Action, (3) The written opinion and/or amendment document of the applicant should be sent by mail or submitted directly to the Receiving Division of the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office, otherwise it will be considered to have no legal effect. (4) Without appointment, the applicant and/or the agent should not come to the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office to have an interview with the examiner. 9.The text of this Office Action has4 pages, and the attachments are as follows Lhe total number of copies of the reference documents cited is copies and pages. a Name of the Examiner: ii Tel: 010-53962692 Examination Department: # Fifi #EUM EE Pals PS LARD AD 210401 2010.24p The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China The First Office Action Application Number 2021104192941 is censored and now sets forth the censoring opinion as follows. 1, Claim 1 is not inventive as specified in clause 22, clause 3 of the patent law Claim 1 claims a groundwater purification process. Comparative document 1 (CN111646589A) discloses an emergency treatment method for heavy metal burst contamination of drinking water, specifically disclosing (see paragraphs 7-21 of the specification, Figures 1-2): $10, Select a model of filtration medium, ultrafiltration membrane and nanofiltration membrane building an ‘emergency processing system comprising a heavy metal adsorption column, a filter, an ultrafiltration assembly, a first nanofiltration membrane device, a second nanofiltration membrane device: $20. Pumping contaminated drinking water in raw water tank by first water pump into heavy metal adsorption column to remove heavy metal to obtain first produced water, a second water product after the first water product enters the filter to remove large particulate colloids, suspensions, and macromolecular organics (equivalent to performing a first purification process). and a third water product after the second water product passes through the ultrafiltration component to trap particulate matter, colloids, dissolved macromolecular organics, and microorganisms, and the third water product flows into the ultrafiltration production tanks: $30, The fourth water product flows into the nanofiltration production tank, the first water is nanofiltered through the second nanofiltration membrane device to yield a second concentrated water, the second concentrated water flows into the concentrated tank or back into the first nanofiltration membrane device, and the fifth water product flows into the nanofiltration production tank (corresponding to the first water being subjected to ultrafiltration followed by nanofiltration treatment to yield purified water): S40. Preferably the heavy metal adsorption column is a zeolite adsorption column with packed zeolite particle size in the range of 0.1 mm to I mm and zeolite adsorption critical point in the range of 4.608 to 5.332. Claim 1 is distinguished from Comparative Document | by: (1) Claim | teats groundwater and Comparative Document 1 drinking water: (2) Claim 1 adding zeolite and titanium dioxide, stirring: (3) Claim 1 is further subjected to cotton wick filtration prior to nanofiltration treatment, Based on the technical effect achieved by the distinguishing, features, the technical problem that claim 1 actually solves with respect to comparative document I is how to enhance the effect of the treatment, For distinguishing feature (1), comparative document 1 discloses drinking water treatment and treatment of organics, inorganic salts, heavy metals therein, Ground water is a conventional source of drinking water in which 210401 2010.2“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China organic, inorganic salts, heavy metals are also a major pollutant species, and the person skilled in the art easily envisages the use of the method of Comparative Document | for ground water purification without technical hurdles for distinguishing feature (2), comparative document 1 discloses zeolite treatment. Comparative document 2 (CNIDI301548A) discloses a zeolite-supported modified filler material and a method for producing the same. it is specifically disclosed (see page 2. paragraph 6 of the specification) that zeolites are porous media with a specific surface area of up to 400-800 m2/g, modified zeolites are positively charged on their surface under neutral pH conditions, have strong adsorption capacity and are effective in removing toxic and harmful substances such as fluorine, arsenic, selenium, organic substances, heavy metals in complex state, algae and microorganisms in water, ‘The Ca2 +, Mg2 +, CI", $042", HC03 "plasma present in water, even at high concentrations, has little effect on the adsorption capacity of the present modified filter material, In addition, zeolites can bind tightly to alumina over a large area so that the modified filter material has high stability and mechanical strength, no covering related ingredients are detected in the outlet water, and the covering is very stable, It can be seen that modified zeolites are disclosed in Comparative Document 2, and that their role in Comparative Document 2 is the same as in the present application, all for improving the adsorption propertios of zeolites, giving the technical implication of employing ‘modified zeolites, and the person skilled in the artis motivated to improve zeolites to modified zeolites on the basis of Comparative Document 1. Titanium dioxide is a conventional treating agent in the art and one skilled in the art can add as needed, addition of modified zeolite and titanium dioxide followed by stirring is also a conventional treatment ‘method and technical effects can be expected For distinguishing feature (3), comparative document 3 (CN109179748A) discloses in particular (see paragraph 33 of the specification, Figure 1): filtration of raw water using PP cotton filter cartridge to further remove microorganisms, suspensions and fine particle impurities in the water body’ to provide safe operating assurance for the nanofiltration process: pP cotton filter cartridge is an efficient form of filtration with outstanding chemical compatibility for filtration of strong acids, strong basos and organic solvents. That is to say that wiek filtration before nanofiltration treatment is disclosed in Comparative Document 3, and its role in Comparative Document 3 is the same as in the present application, both for further impurities removal and for safeguarding the effect of nanofiltration operation, a person skilled in the art will readily envision that wick filtration is also performed before nanofiltration treatment on the basis of Comparative Document 1 . the solution claimed in claim 1 is obvious to a person skilled in the art on the basis of the reference document in combination with the reference documents 2 and 3 and the common general knowledge in the field, and therefore the solution claimed in claim 1 does not have outstanding, essential features and thus does not have the inventive step 210401 2010.2“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China speci ed in clause 22, paragraph 3 of the patent law: 2, Claims 2-7 do not have the inventive step specified in clause 22, clause 3 of the patent law. Claims 2 to 7 are dependent claims as further defined. The addition of modified zeolite and titanium dioxide is obtainable by conventional technical means by the skilled person as required by the water quality For the preparation of modified zeolites. Comparative Document 2 discloses (see page | penultimate paragraph I-page 2 paragraph 2 of the specification): (1) the zeolite is soaked, washed, unclozged: (2) soaking the zeolite with a solution of the aluminum salt (equivalent to soaking the zeolite in an aqueous solution of aluminum sulfate, implicitly disclosing the removal of the zeolite after the end of the soak), followed by reaction with the aluminum salt with sodium hydroxide to attach the aluminum hydroxide to the surface of the zeolite: (3) The zeolite is oven dried at 110 C (falling within the numerical range of the oven drying temperature of 100 to 120° C herein) and then calcined at 150°C 10 400°C. The zeolite is soaked and washed in step (1) by washing it with clear water until neutral after soaking the zeolite in HCI solution (equivalent to soaking the zeolite with hydrochloric acid solution) and then soaking it with NaOH solution. The aluminium salt described in step (2) is Al (S04) 3 and the temperature of the solution during the reaction is 40-80 °C and the pHis 8-10. ‘The concentration, soaking time, and drying time of hydrochloric acid solution and aluminium sulfate solution are determinable by conventional technical means as desired by a person skilled in the art without unexpected technical effects Regarding filtration membranes, Comparative Document 1 discloses (see paragraphs 48-49 of the specification, Figures 1-2) thatthe ultrafiltration membrane of the present embodiment of the ultrafiltration module 5 (equivalent to ultrafiltration through the ultrafiltration membrane) can be selected from one of the group consisting of flat sheet ultrafiltration membranes, tubular membranes or hollow fiber membranes, but is not limited to the above ultrafiltration membrane forms, and other ultrafiltration modules 5 with molecular weight cutoff between 10 kDa and 300 kDa can also be suitable for use in the present invention. The nanofiltration module comprises a nanofiltration ‘membrane (equivalent to nanofiltration through a nanofiltration membrane) in the form of a flat plate, tube or hollow fiber, using a constant pressure cross-flow filtration mode: nanofiltration membranes are organic ot inorganic ceramic membranes, the primary materials of which are aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, titanium oxide, or silicon oxide; organic membranes are mainly aramid and organic nanofiltration membranes have molecular weight cut-off 80 Da to 300 Da, Polyacrylamide composite membranes are a conventional material for nanofiltration membranes, 210401 2010.2“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China ‘and the membrane flux of ultrafiltration membranes and nanofiltration membranes can be selected by those skilled in the art according to the needs of the water quality treatment, Comparative document 1 also discloses (see paragraph 50 of the specification) that in this example raw water simulates heavy metal contamination of water bodies using brackish water with a total TDS of about 2300 mg/L. and a hardness of about 760 mg/L as substrate, drinking water with addition of Cd2 +, Zn2 +, Mn2 +, Cu2 +, Pb2 + and Cr6 +, Namely, Comparative Document 1 can be applied to brackish water, the person skilled in the art, on this basis, casily envisages that groundwater is saline groundwater. Thus, to the extent that the claims to which they are cited are not inventive, neither are claims 2-7 capable of the inventive step specified by clause 22, clause 3 of the patent law 3, Claim 8 isnot inventive as specified in clause 22, clause 3 of the patent law Claim & claims a groundwater purification system. Comparative document 1 discloses an emergency treatment method for heavy metal burst contamination of drinking water, including a purification system, specifically disclosing (sce paragraphs 7-21 of the specification, Figures 1-2): S10, Solect model of filtration modia, ultrafiltration membrane and nanofiltration membrane building an emergency treatment system comprising heavy metal adsorption column, filter (equivalent to pretreatment device implicitly disclosing connection by water delivery lines). ultrafiltration assembly (equivalent to ultrafiltration device). first nanofiltration membrane device, second nanofiltration membrane device (equivalent to filtration membrane device) preferably the heavy metal adsorption column is a zeolite adsorption column with packed zeolite particle size between 0.1 mm and 1 mm and zeolite adsorption critical point between 4.608 and 5.332, Claim 8 is distinguished from Comparative Document 1 by: (1) Claim 8 treats groundwater and Comparative Document 1 drinking water; (2) the pretreatment device of Claim 8 is provided with a modified zeolite inlet and a titania inlet; (3) Claim 8 further comprises a cotton wick filter device. Based on the technical effect ach ced by the distinguishing features, the technical problem that claim 8 actually solves with respect to comparative document 1 is how to enhance the effect of the treatment. For distinguishing feature (1), see review of claim 1 For distinguishing feature (2), Comparative document | discloses zeolite treatment. A modified zeolite is disclosed in Comparative Document 2, and its role in Comparative Document 2 is the same as in the present application, all for improving the adsorption properties of zeolites. giving technical implications for the use of ‘modified zeolites, and the person skilled in the art is motivated to improve zeolites to modified zeolites on the basis 210401 2010.2“Pp The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China of Comparative Document 1. Titanium dioxide is a conventional treating agent in the art and can be added as desired by the skilled person and the corresponding arrangement of the pre-treatment device to modify’ the inlet of the zeolite ‘and the inlet of the titanium dioxide is readily conceivable by the skilled person for distinguishing feature (3) disclosed in Comparative Document 3 for wick filtration prior to nanofiltration treatment, and the same role in Comparative Document 3 as in the present application, both for further impurities removal and for safeguarding the effect of nanofiltration operation, the person skilled in the art will readily envision the provision of a wick filtration device prior to the nanofiltration device on the basis of Comparative Document 1 «the solution claimed in claim 8 is obvious to a person skilled in the art on the basis of Comp. | in combination ‘with Comp. Nos. 2 and 3 and common general knowledge in the field, and therefore the sotution claimed in claim & does not have outstanding essential features and thus does not have the inventive step specified in clause 22, paragraph 3 of the patent law 4, Claims 9-10 are not inventive as specified in clause 22, clause 3 of the patent lav Claims 9 to 10 are dependent claims as further defined versus document 1 discloses (see paragraph 8 of the specification, Figure 1): pumping contaminated drinking water in a raw water tank into a heavy metal adsorption column by a first water pump to remove heavy metals to obtain a first produced water. a second water yield after the first water yield passes into a filler to remove ‘macroparticulate colloids, suspensions, and macromolecular organics, the second water product is subjected to the hhyperfiltration component to retain particulate matter, colloids, dissolved macromolecular organic matter and ticroorganisms to yield a third water product which is passed into the ultrafitration water production tank (equivalent to the ultrafiltration water production storage device, the water inlet of the ultrafiltration water production storage device being connected to the water outlet of the ultrafiltration device can be determined in conjunction with Figure 1), The ultrafiltration water production storage device is disposed between the ultrafiltration device and the wick fillor device and the first water outlet of the ultrafiltration water production storage device is connected to the water inlet of the wick filter device in a conventional connection relationship. To enhance the treatment effect, the backflow of the ultrafiltered water product to the front treatment unit is a conventional arrangement, and the skilled person can connect the second water outlet of the ultrafiltered water product storage device with the water inlet of the ultrafiltration device as required Thus, to the extent that the claims to which they are cited are not inventive, neither are claims 9-10 capable of the inventive step specified by clause 22, clause 3 of the patent law. Based on the above reasons, neither the independent nor the dependent claims of this application are inventive 210401 2010.24p The State Intellectual Property Office of People’s Republic of China and this application does not hold the prospect of patenting. If Applicant is unable to propose a sufficient reason to suggest that the application is inventive, within the answering date set forth in this written description, the application will be dismissed additionally reminds Applicants to note that the proactive application withdrawal before the first Examination Opinion Answer Delivery expires (except for the Answer Opinion submitted) may require a return of 50% of the Patent Application Substantial Examination Fee. If you doubt about censorship comments may’ dial a censorship phone 010-53962692, or on-duty: phone (110- 53962887/53962774, also through mailbox sxbjzx_yijian@enipagov.en feedback comments. Note: The content of mailbox feedback is not legally valid, please submit formal Opinion Statements and/or Modification texts to the Patent Office Reception department within defined terms, WES at aH AALS: 189085 210401 2010.2