Sec. 02.01.07.01. General

These regulations are promulgated pursuant to Commercial Law Article, § 13-205, Annotated Code of Maryland, Subtitle, "Division of Consumer Protection; Consumer Council". They shall apply to Chapter 362 of the Acts of 1977, which defines as an unfair or deceptive trade practice and thus prohibits under the provisions of Commercial Law Article, § 13-303. Annotated Code of Maryland, "deception, fraud, false pretense, misrepresentation, or knowing concealment, suppression, or omission of any material fact with the intent that a consumer rely on the same in connection with a contract or other agreement for the evaluation, perfection, marketing, brokering, or promotion of an invention".