{"id":11460,"date":"2021-12-26T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/why-should-the-future-franchisor-own-his-brand\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T05:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:15:45","slug":"why-should-the-future-franchisor-own-his-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/why-should-the-future-franchisor-own-his-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should the future franchisor own his brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trademark used in a franchise network must be secured by the franchisor, since this is one of his essential obligations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chosen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/brand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trademark<\/a> must be distinctive, i.e. able to distinguish the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/products-and-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">products and services<\/a> of a company from those of its competitors, but also available, i.e. not infringing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/anteriorite-dune-marque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prior<\/a> rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore, it is essential that the franchisor owns the trademark or has an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/brand-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">license<\/a> to use the trademark within a network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secondly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/trademark-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trademark registration<\/a> must be carried out correctly, and must designate the current activity of the franchisor, and the one that it could be brought to develop in a second time. For example, a clothing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/lexicon\/brand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">t<\/a>rademark should think about designating fashion accessories (bags, jewelry, etc.) and even cosmetic products, such as perfumes, in its registration, since the development of such trademarks in these sectors often occurs at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, it is also necessary to anticipate the development of the trademark internationally by making registrations in the countries in which the franchisor could be led to develop, in order to avoid that unscrupulous third parties try to appropriate the trademark in one of these countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>To learn more: read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-reference-franchise.fr\/P-382-64-A1-pourquoi-le-futur-franchiseur-doit-il.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the article from La R\u00e9f\u00e9rence Franchise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trademark used in a franchise network must be secured by the franchisor, since this is one of his essential obligations. The chosen trademark must be distinctive, i.e. able to distinguish the products and services of a company from those of its competitors, but also available, i.e. not infringing on prior rights. Furthermore, it is &#8230; <a title=\"Why should the future franchisor own his brand?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/why-should-the-future-franchisor-own-his-brand\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why should the future franchisor own his brand?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brand-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11460\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cabinetbouchara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}