Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 645,576 - System of Transmission of Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 37

Room No.91 Dict. A communications should be addressed to "The Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." Nikola Tesla, 2-071 a. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, C/o Kerr, Curtis & Page, 120 Broadway, New York. Any communication respecting this application should give the serial uumber, date at uling, aud title of invention. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10, 1897. Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in charge of your application for Sys tem of Transmission of Electrical Energy; filed Sept. 2, 1897; Ser. No. 650,343. Buy Butterworth Commissioner of Palents. The argument of the attorneys and the letter of the applicant have been considered with care. It must be understood that the Examiner is ready at any time to formal ly act upon the claims and take definite position with regard to them. He did not ao so in the last letter ard does not do so in the present ietter because he considers that there are certain matters at present not understood by him which make it just to the applicant to defor definite action. The key note of the appli cent's case is well expressed in the following sentence which is taken from page 2 of the argument lest filed, "Mr. Tesla, on the other hand, produced currents which accessi155