SEC Comment Letter for PATCH INTERNATIONAL — Aug 11, 2005
PATCH INTERNATIONAL INC/CN (CIK 0001064481)
Date: Aug. 11, 2005 · CIK: 0001064481 · Accession: 0000000000-05-041561
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File numbers found in text: 000-28627
Referenced dates: July 12, 2005, July 26, 2005, July 26, 2005
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August 11, 2005
Mr. David Stadnyk
President, Treasurer and Director
Patch International, Inc.
666 Burrard Street, Suite 1220
Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2X8
Re: Patch International, Inc.
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004
Filed October 18, 2004
Response letter dated July 26, 2005
File No. 000-28627
Dear Mr. Stadnyk:
We have reviewed your response letter and filings and have
the
following comments. We have limited our review to those issues we
have addressed in our comments. Please provide a written response
to
our comments. Please be as detailed as necessary in your
explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide
us
with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
After
reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments.
10-KSB for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004
General
1. We will be evaluating the applicability of the Investment
Company
Act of 1940 to your business. If we find that you are not an
investment company, we will resume processing of your July 26,
2005
response material; and request that you complete your response to
comments 1, 2 and 4, included in our letter dated July 12, 2005.
2. Please electronically file all response material that you
provide
during this review, including your response letter dated July 26,
2005, as correspondence on the non-public section of EDGAR, as
required by Subparts 232.100 and 232.101 of Regulation S-T.
3. The Division of Investment Management has asked us to inform
you
that, based on the information included in your consolidated
financial statements as of the period ended May 31, 2004, you may
be
an investment company as defined in Section 3(a)(1) of the
Investment
Company Act of 1940 ("Investment Company Act").
Section 3(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act defines "investment
company" as any issuer that, among other things:
(A) is or holds itself out as being engaged primarily, or proposes
to
engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting, or
trading in securities...,or (C) is engaged or proposes to engage
in
the business of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding, or
trading
in securities, and owns or proposes to acquire investment
securities
having a value exceeding 40 per centum of the value of such
issuer`s
total assets (exclusive of Government securities and cash items)
on
an unconsolidated basis.
Section 3(a)(2) of the Investment Company Act provides that the
term
"investment securities" includes "all securities except (A)
Government securities, (B) securities issued by employees`
securities
companies, and (C) securities issued by majority-owned
subsidiaries
of the owner which
(i) are not investment companies, and
(ii) are not relying on the exception from the definition of
investment company in paragraph (1) or (7) of subsection (c)" of
the
Investment Company Act.
Based on the financial statements included in your Form 10-KSB for
the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004, it appears that you own
investment securities in excess of 40% of your total assets, and
that
you may be "engaged primarily...in the business of investing,
reinvesting, or trading in securities."
Please provide your written legal and factual analysis of the
Company`s status under the Investment Company Act. Include in
your
analysis an overview of Section 3(a)(1)(A) and Section 3(a)(1)(C)
of
the Investment Company Act discussed above to provide context to
your
discussion of the Company`s investment company status. In
addition,
if you believe that you are able to rely on one of the exclusions
from the definition of investment company set forth in the
Investment
Company Act, please provide a written legal and factual analysis
in
support of that claim.
Section 3(c)(9) under the Investment Company Act provides an
exclusion from the definition of investment company for "[a]ny
person
substantially all of whose business consists of owning or holding
oil, gas, or other mineral royalties or leases, or fractional
interests therein, or certificates of interest or participation in
or
investment contracts relative to such royalties, leases, or
fractional interests."
Please send your response to the attention of Tara Royal of the
Division of Investment Management`s Office of Chief Counsel at the
following address:
Office of Chief Counsel
Division of Investment Management
Securities and Exchange Commission
901 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
Closing Comments
Please respond to these comments within 10 business days or
tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please furnish
a
letter that keys your responses to our comments and provides any
requested information. Detailed letters greatly facilitate our
review. Please understand that we may have additional comments
after
reviewing your responses to our comments
You may contact Mark A. Wojciechowski at (202) 551-3759 or,
in
his absence, Karl Hiller at (202) 551-3686 if you have questions
regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters.
Please contact Tara Royal at (202) 551-6839 with questions related
to
your status as an investment company. Please contact me at (202)
551-3740 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
H. Roger Schwall
Assistant Director
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Mr. David Stadnyk
Patch International, Inc.
August 11, 2005
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549-7010
DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE
MAIL STOP 7010
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