Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-12
2011-04-12
Hamilton, Lalita M (Department: 3691)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
C705S035000, C705S03600T
Reexamination Certificate
active
07925573
ABSTRACT:
A computer program product is provided for administering a single investment company. The computer program product has a computer-readable medium encoded with computer-executable instructions. The instructions perform a method wherein the single investment company issuing one or more classes of shares that are bought from and redeemed with the single investment company at a net asset value and issues one or more classes of shares that are listed for trading on a securities exchange and that are bought and sold at negotiated market prices. One or more computers maintain account data of the outstanding shares. An owner of any share of any share class has an undivided interest in the single investment company.
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Lenhard Walter
Sauter George U.
Hamilton Lalita M
Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
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