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Royalty payment. A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset. Royalties are typically agreed upon as a percentage of gross or net revenues derived from the use of an asset or a fixed price per unit sold of an item of such, but there are also other modes and ...
Royalty rate assessment. Royalty rate assessment is a practical tool to gauge the impact of a royalty commitment in a technology contract on the business interests of the contracting parties. In this coverage, the terms 'royalty', 'royalty rate' and 'royalties' are used interchangeably. A firm with valuable Intellectual Property IP by having ...
California Resale Royalty Act. The California Resale Royalty Act (Civil Code section 986), which went into effect on January 1, 1977, entitles artists to a royalty payment upon the resale of their art if the transaction takes place in California or the seller is based in the state. It was the only law of its kind implemented in the United States.
The original owner of an oil and gas lease will sometimes retain an overriding royalty as part of a farmout agreement. For any oil and gas property, the total working interests must add up to 100%. The sum of the net revenue interests, royalty interests, and overriding royalty interests, must also add up to 100%. In education and practice
Compulsory license. A compulsory license provides that the owner of a patent or copyright licenses the use of their rights against payment either set by law or determined through some form of adjudication or arbitration. In essence, under a compulsory license, an individual or company seeking to use another's intellectual property can do so ...
Non-recurring engineering ( NRE) cost refers to the one-time cost to research, design, develop and test a new product or product enhancement. When budgeting for a new product, NRE must be considered to analyze if a new product will be profitable. Even though a company will pay for NRE on a project only once, NRE costs can be prohibitively high ...
The Sheetz case got started back in 2016 when the plaintiff, California retiree George Sheetz, sued his local county government over a $23,000 traffic impact fee he had to pay in order to get ...
One component of rate increase was to remove the cap on the per-station/channel minimum fee of USD $500, which used to be $2,500. The law requires rates to be based on the price that would be set by a marketplace of willing sellers and willing buyers. Much of the discussion focused on the definition of "willing seller".