Does Bang Cookies own any patents or copyrights material to the franchise system?

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We license a system (the "System") for the operation of a Bang Cookies Shop, a cookie shop that bakes and sells giant, soft-baked, organic cookies and baked goods, and other products and services (the "Approved Services and Products") provided on-site from a single fixed location (the "Shop Location") within a designated territory. The System is presently identified by the Bang Cookies trademark, the Bang Cookies logo and other trademarks, service-marks, logotypes, and commercial symbols as we may designate, modify and adopt from time to time for use in the System and as same may or may not be registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (collectively referred to as the "Licensed Marks"). The System features the prominent display of the Licensed Marks and our trade dress.

We refer to Shops in our System as "Shops" and we refer to the Shop that you will develop and operate as either "your Shop" or the "Franchised Business". You may enter into a Franchise Agreement in the form attached to this Disclosure Document as Exhibit E (the "Franchise Agreement") to develop and operate a Shop from a single Shop Location. Under the Franchise Agreement you will develop and operate your Shop in conformity with the requirements of our System. The System includes Approved Services and Products that we currently designate and that we may modify, add to or discontinue from time to time, and our specifications, methods and procedures for marketing, selling, offering, and providing the Approved Services and Products. The System also features and requires, as designated by us, your exclusive purchase, use, and maintenance of certain merchandise, inventory, products, supplies, and goods constituting or comprising the Approved Services and Products offered for sale and/or the services provided and further includes displays, equipment, furniture, and fixtures designated by us (collectively, the "System Supplies"). You must operate your Shop in conformity with the specifications, procedures, criteria and requirements that we designate in our confidential operations manual and other proprietary manuals that we may designate and loan to you and, as we may from time to time supplement and modify other manuals and communications (collectively, the "Manuals").

Because our Shops offer homemade cookies, cakes, and other baked good menu items, the initial Shop that you establish must be a bakery location that includes full production facilities, including a convection oven and kitchen capable of producing, on-site, dough for all of our homemade cookies and most of our baked menu items (a "Bakery Location").

Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 39–40)