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          trade names and trademarks, SMMT, the right to commercially                 
          market SMMT, two computer software programs, DM’s customer list,            
          and a covenant not to compete.  However, there is no evidence               
          that petitioner attempted to derive a monetary value for the                
          licensed assets before entering into negotiations and simply                
          wanted to pay the same amount of royalties that SMP paid.                   
          Maitland admitted that he was careless in drafting and reviewing            
          the written agreement.  He omitted the most important licensed              
          asset, SMMT, from the original license agreement and omitted the            
          customer list from both the original and amended agreements.  DM            
          did not contact any interested third party to discuss possible              
          licensing of the intangible assets.  In addition, petitioner and            
          DM were represented by the same attorney when they amended the              
          license agreement.                                                          
               The financing that petitioner received from the various                
          Nyingma organizations also indicates that a close relationship              
          existed between petitioner and DM as two entities within a larger           
          network of Nyingma organizations.  The Nyingma Institute lent               
          money to petitioner.  DM along with other Nyingma organizations             
          financed petitioner's initial purchase of printing equipment and            
          the purchase of the four-color press in 1989.                               
               Petitioner took SMP's place within the Nyingma network, and            
          SMP assisted petitioner in entering into the printing business.             
          SMP permitted Maitland to work there and also trained                       
          petitioner's newly hired employees.  Maitland relied on SMP's               
          business plans and profit projections rather than preparing his             


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