Patent royalty

Definitive diagnosis comes at a cost. QA/QC expenses, regulatory expenses, and patent royalty expenses are high, as are supply costs for consumables, reagents, and test kits. Morever, the equipment required for assay and result delivery and accuracy can be expensive. In the sections that follow, an outline of how these costs are calculated is provided and an effort is made to flesh out a difficult area to quantify. Generally, test costs, neglecting administration and overhead, can be... 

A patent royalty charge of 5 percent of the annual sales value before taxes must be paid. 

Ibid., 211-214. Although the original TWEA would have permitted patent royalty claims throughout the entire war, the War Claims Act amended that provision to exclude the period when the United States actively participated in the war. "Memorandum for the War Claims Arbiter" (5 Oct 1928), RG 60, entry 228, box 3. 

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