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Franchising

Solicitors here provide practical legal advice on franchising to franchisors and franchisees. Franchising is a commercial arrangement under which a bundle of intellectual property rights (such as patents, trade marks, trade names, copyrights, designs and know how (owned or claimed to be owned by a franchisor) are licensed for use by a franchisee under terms which require the franchisee to follow exactly the franchisor's methods of doing business. A true franchise is a complete business system licensed to the franchisee for a number of years.

Our solicitors can advise on:

  • franchise and master licence agreements
  • general considerations on structure and organisation
  • protecting the uniform identity of the franchise
  • unfair competition law and the EU franchise block exemption
  • litigation, arbitration and mediation over disputes arising from the performance of the franchise.
 
Combinations

Solicitors here can supply the energy and depth in intellectual property law which companies, businesspeople and correspondent firms need in a competitive world marketplace to manage their intellectual property rights successfully, including in relation to:
  • internet
  • joint ventures
  • know-how and show-how
  • licensing and franchising
  • litigation, arbitration, mediation
  • media and publishing
  • patents (licensing, transfer and litigation)
  • passing off
  • technology transfer
  • trade marks
  • unfair competition
  • computer software
  • confidential information
  • copyrights
  • database rights
  • defamation and malicious falsehood
  • designs (registered and unregistered)
  • employee obligations
  • EU treaty regulations
  • free trade
  • information technology
  • music business
 



E-mail us with details of your enquiry on franchising@humphreys.co.uk
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fax number and address.

Tel (0117) (international +44 117) 929 2662 
Fax (0117) (international +44 117) 929 2722



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