Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 1,119,732 - Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 24

720 DivXVI. Roor109. A communicatums should be addressed o "The Commissioner of Patanti, Washington, D. C." Nikola Tesla, 15, 1904. tension. C.E.N. c/o Kerr, Page & Cooper, 120 Broadway, 2-260. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, misspelled. GRev UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in charge of your application, #90,245, filed January 18, 1902, for Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Media. Paper No. 5........ All coamnnications respecting this application should give the serial number, date of filing, and title of lavention. New York, New York. WASHINGTON, D. c. April 25, 1904. This action is in response to amendment of April F. I. Allen. Commissioner of Patents. In line 10, page 1, "tention" should be changed to The serial number referred to in line 17, page 6, should be 43,368. It is required that lines 12-15, beginning with the word "and" in line 12, be canceled because it is improper to refer to a pending application inasmuch as the application may never become a patent. In line 17, page 8, "namely" should be canceled. In line 19 of the same page, "of" should be changed to or. In line 2, claim 1, the spelling of the third word. should be corrected. In line 4 of claim 23, the next to the last word is 21 Claim 13 is rejected on the ground that it is merely a statement of function and, therefore, does not set out any construction of apparatus or arrangement of circuits. The other claims are allowed. Campbell Examiner, Difision XVI. 3-71-32