COMPENSATION TO BE PAID BY THE FUND TO THE MANAGER The Fund will pay to the Manager as compensation for the Manager’s services rendered, for the facilities furnished and for the expenses borne by the Manager pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of Section 1, a fee, based on the Fund’s Average Net Assets, computed and paid monthly at the annual rates set forth on Schedule B attached to this Contract, as from time to time amended. The Fund’s “
Inventions Retained and Licensed I have attached hereto, as Exhibit A, a list describing all inventions, original works of authorship, developments, improvements, and trade secrets which were made by me prior to my employment with the Company (collectively referred to as “Prior Inventions”), which belong to me, which relate to the Company’s proposed business, products or research and development, and which are not assigned to the Company hereunder; or, if no such list is attached, I represent that there are no such Prior Inventions. If in the course of my employment with the Company, I incorporate into a Company product, process or machine a Prior Invention owned by me or in which I have an interest, the Company is hereby granted and shall have a nonexclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to make, have made, modify, use and sell such Prior Invention as part of or in connection with such product, process or machine.
Service Charge to Be Paid to BD On the Business Day next succeeding each Auction Date, the Auction Agent shall pay to BD from moneys received from the Funds an amount equal to: (a) in the case of any Auction Date immediately preceding a Dividend Period of less than one year, the product of (i) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days in such Dividend Period (calculated by counting the first day of such Dividend Period but excluding the last day thereof) and the denominator of which is 360, times (ii) 1/4 of 1%, times (iii) $25,000, times (iv) the sum of (A) the aggregate number of shares of any series of Preferred Shares placed by BD in the applicable Auction that were (x) the subject of a Submitted Bid of a Beneficial Owner submitted by BD and continued to be held as a result of such submission and (y) the subject of a Submitted Bid of a Potential Beneficial Owner submitted by BD and were purchased as a result of such submission plus (B) the aggregate number of shares of any series of Preferred Shares subject to valid Hold Orders (determined in accordance with Section 2 of Part II of the Articles Supplementary) submitted to the Auction Agent by BD plus (C) the number of shares of any series of Preferred Shares deemed to be subject to Hold Orders by Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 2 of Part II of the Articles Supplementary that were acquired by BD for its own account or were acquired by such Beneficial Owners through BD; and (b) in the case of any Auction Date immediately preceding a Special Dividend Period of one year or longer, that amount as mutually agreed upon by the Funds and BD, based on the selling concession that would be applicable to an underwriting of fixed or variable rate Preferred Shares with a similar final maturity or variable rate dividend period, at the commencement of such Special Dividend Period. For purposes of subclause (a)(iv)(C) of the foregoing sentence, if any Beneficial Owner who acquired shares of any series of Preferred Shares through BD transfers those shares to another Person other than pursuant to an Auction, then the Broker-Dealer for the shares so transferred shall continue to be BD, provided, however, that if the transfer was effected by, or if the transferee is, a Broker-Dealer other than BD, then such Broker-Dealer shall be the Broker-Dealer for such shares.
NET RETAINED LINES A. This Contract applies only to that portion of any Policy which the Company retains net for its own account (prior to deduction of any underlying reinsurance specifically permitted in this Contract), and in calculating the amount of any loss hereunder and also in computing the amount or amounts in excess of which this Contract attaches, only loss or losses in respect of that portion of any Policy which the Company retains net for its own account shall be included.
