Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,956 - Apparatus for Utilizing Effects Transmitted through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 31

D 735,573 Aug. 11, 1897, same class. Claim 12 is objected to as indefinite, for the reason given in connection with claim 11. The claim is rejected, however, on each of the patents to Marconi, No. 627,650, June 27, 1899, same class, and Lodge, No. 609,154, Aug. 16, 1898, same class, in view of the English patent to Lodge, cited. To arrange the receiving instrumenta of the first two cited patents, in the marmer shown to be old in English patent to Lodge, involves no invention. FOF. Examiner, Div. 16. 485