Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 725,605 - System of Signaling Patent Wrapper Page 62

676 1 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Vonited States Patent Office, A. Washington, D.C, April 1, 190.2 FRICE, S. PATER MAR 271502 Nikola Tesla, Care, Kerr, Page & Cooper, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. -213. Room No. 91..... All communications shoreld be eadressed to "The Commissioner of Patents. Washington. D. C." Serial No. 23847 Paper No. // [INTERFERENCE.] Please find below a copy of a communication from the Examiner concerning your application Ser. No. 23,847, filed July 16, 1900, Systems of Signaling.... Very respectfully, 81701 Fr. I. Allen. Commissioner of Patents. Your case, above referred to, is adjudged to interfere with others, hereafter specified, and the question of priority will be determined in conformity with the Rules. day of... April The statement demanded by Rule 110 must be sealed up and filed on or before the 22nd. 190 with the subject of the intention, and name of party filing it, indorsed on the envelope. The subject matter involved in the interference is Count 1: In a system for the transmission of electrical energy, the combination with means for producing two or more distinctive kinds of disturbances or impulses, of receiving circuits, each tuned to respond to the waves or impulses of one kind only, and a receiving device dependent for operation upon the conjoint action of the several receiving circuits; which is your claim 1 and claim 9 of the application of Reginald A. Fessenden, of Allegheny, Fa., whose P.O. address is 1225 Carnegie Bldg., Pittsburg, Fa., for App. for Transmitting and Receiving Signals, whose attorney is Darwin S. Wolcott, Carnegie Bldg., Fittsburg, Pa. Count 2: In a system for the transmission of electrical impulses and the operation or control of signaling or other apparatus thereby, the combination with a transmitter adapted to produce two or more distinctive kinds or classes of disturbances or