Nikola Tesla Patents
320 3 Camellia рес бие брас. On page 14 after line 1 insert: "I do not claim herein an apparatus by means of which the above described method is or may be practiced, either in the special form herein shown or in other forms which are possible, having made claim to such apparatus in another application forming a division of the present case." Cancel claims 26 to 31 inclusive. As thus amended the application is submitted for reconsideration. With regard to the examiner's objection to the introductory matter in the specification, we would say that this was written by the applicant personally and is regarded by him as particularly necessary to a full and clear understanding of the invention, because the matters with which it deals are not treated of very fully in current technical literature, and when discussed are not always correctly stated. As the invention is for a method of utilizing the effects described it would seem not improper, at all events, to set forth rather fully the nature of the effects and the known methods or means. of producing them. The matter is certainly pertinent and if not essential, can, it seems to us, be objected to only upon the ground that it is not necessary to one who is familiar with the literature on the subject. If this be so we request that it be allowed to stand as it can in no possible way tend to confusion, and it is in reality very brief. The Office usually allows at latitude to an applicant in describing in his own words an inven-2
