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13 C.F.R. § 121.108(e). Moreover, all claims of a patent issued following an intentional misrepresentation of small entity status may be held to be unenforceable as the result of inequitable conduct, i.e., fraud upon the United States Patent and Trademark Office. See MPEP § 2016; 37 C.F.R. § 1.27(h). As long as any small-entity assertions ...
TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. is a Canadian financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto-Dominion Bank.The company does business through several divisions, namely TD Direct Investing, TD Wealth Financial Planning, and TD Wealth Private Investment Advice. [1]
The abandoned application may be reinstated within 12 months of the date of abandonment, by filing a request for reinstatement with payment of the maintenance fee that is due and the reinstatement fee. The maintenance fee for a patent may be paid within a one-year grace period after the due date, with the payment of a late fee.
Distribution and service fees are fees paid by the fund out of fund assets to cover the costs of marketing and selling fund shares and sometimes to cover the costs of providing shareholder services. They are also called 12b-1 fees after section 12 of the Investment Company Act of 1940. "Distribution fees" include fees to compensate brokers and ...
TD Securities is a Canadian multinational investment bank and financial services provider that offers advisory and capital market services to corporate, government, and institutional clients worldwide. The firm provides services in corporate and investment banking, capital markets, and global transaction services. [2]
If an infringer is found to have deliberately infringed a patent (i.e., "willful" infringement), then "enhanced" damages can be awarded of up to three times the damages found or assessed. Legal fees can also be assessed, under 35 U.S.C. § 285, if the case is deemed "exceptional." Willfulness is determined from "the knowledge of the actor at ...
Furthermore, because no examination of the patentability of the application in view of the prior art is performed, the USPTO fee for filing a provisional patent application is significantly lower ($60 - $240 as of August 2023 [10]) than the fee required to file a standard non-provisional patent application.
Filing a QPIDS request requires a payment of full RCE and IDS fees, which are refunded, if no RCE is opened. However, QPIDS petition fee is not returned. [7] Ca. 2018 the QPIDS program became permanent, [8] even though USPTO's own study in 2014 showed very low applicants' participation rate. [9]