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Quizno's franchisees do not "get it their way"

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 9 2008

Quizno's operates a chain of fast food restaurants known for their toasted submarine sandwiches

The basics of the franchise registration process

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 21 2007

With renewal season fast approaching, we thought it would be useful to review a few issues that franchisors and their counsel typically encounter during this period, including filing deadlines, registration exemptions, and potentially available workarounds that permit a franchisor who, for one reason or another, does not have an updated offering circular to continue offering franchises under specified conditions

Disclaimers in compliance questionnaire held to violate NY Franchise Act

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 18 2008

As 2007 drew to a close, a New York appellate court struck a blow to the growing use of compliance questionnaires that include disclaimers

Texas margin tax update

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 4 2007

Businesses in Texas face a new tax - the “Margin Tax” - which becomes effective on January 1, 2008

Franchise tax and license fee amnesty program in Illinois

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 6 2008

The State of Illinois has enacted an amnesty program for all corporate businesses owing past due franchise tax or licenses fees to the State of Illinois that will be in effect from February 1, 2008, through March 17, 2008

Grant of nonexclusive trademark license bars chapter 11 franchisee’s assumption of franchise agreement

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 25 2007

In a case of apparent first impression, U.S. District Court Judge Alan S. Gold recently held in In re Wellington Vision, Inc., No. 06-80446, __ B.R. ___, 2007 WL 762398 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 20, 2007), that a franchisee in chapter 11 cannot assume (i.e., retain) a franchise agreement that grants a nonexclusive trademark license, leaving the franchisor free to terminate the agreement

Amended FTC Franchise Rule introduces new equivalency standard for financial statements

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • February 26 2008

The Amended Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Franchise Rule (the Amended Rule), which came into effect in the U.S. in July 2007, offers a welcome change for Canadian franchisors looking to expand into the lucrative U.S. marketplace

Despite Leegin, the FTC’s narrow view of markets should worry franchisors

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 6 2007

On June 6, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to block the acquisition of Wild Oats Markets, Inc. by Whole Foods Market, Inc

New FTC franchise rule phase-in period

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 7 2008

Less than four months remain before the July 1, 2008 deadline for all franchisors to have rewritten their disclosure documents to incorporate the changes required by the new Rule

Franchise agreements in bankruptcy: fiasco or fortuity?

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2008

Your franchisee files bankruptcy; is this good news or bad news?