Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 649,621 - Apparatus for Transmission of Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 18

[ 1 to an elevated terminal, and a translating device connected with its secondary, the capacity and inductance of the secondary of the transmitting and primary of the receiving instruments having such values as to secure synchronism with the impressed oscillations, as set forth." While we do not admit, and while, in fact, we think it perfectly obvious that the Edison patent cited contains. no suggestion of the invention of original claims 1 and 3, we cancel these latter because we agree with the Examiner that the description of the distinguishing features of the claims is not sufficiently definite. In presenting the case for reconsideration we would say with regard to claims 3 and 4, that they are intended to cover the same ground as original claims 5 and 6, for while in the latter we used the expression "same dimensions", we did not refer to mere matters of physical proportion, but electrical relation. We have now adopted in the claims the language of the specification, which clearly distinguishes the device from that of the reference. We think that claim 2 (original 4) must have been included in the list of rejected claims by error, or that the claim was rejected through a misunderstanding, for it is very apparent that the Edison patent does not show the combination claimed. As to claims 8, 9 and 10 (original 10, 11 and 12), we submit that there is no suggestion whatever in the Edison patent of such an apparatus as is made the subject of these claims. Claim 8 is limited to the case of transmitting and receiving circuits of such inductance and capacity. -2This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed. 215