Does Clean Your Dirty Face have any pending patent applications material to the franchise?
Clean_Your_Dirty_Face Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
No patents are material to the franchise. We do not have any pending patent applications that are material to the franchise. We and/or our affiliates claim copyrights in the Operations Manual (which contains our trade secrets), handbooks, all Franchise System Websites, advertising and marketing materials, all or part of the Marks, and other portions of the Franchise System and other similar materials used in operating CYDF Facial Bars. We have not registered these copyrights with the United States Registrar of Copyrights but need not do so at this time to protect them. You may use these items only as we specify while operating your CYDF Facial Bar (and must stop using them if we so direct you).
There currently are no effective adverse determinations of the United States Copyright Office (Library of Congress) or any court regarding the copyrighted materials. No agreement limits our right to use or allow others to use the Confidential Information (defined below) or copyrighted materials. We know of no infringing uses of our copyrights which could materially affect your using the copyrighted materials in any state. We need not protect or defend our copyrights, although we intend to do so if we determine that it is in the Franchise System's best interests. We may control any action involving the copyrights, even if you voluntarily bring the matter to our attention. We neither need to participate in your defense nor indemnify you for damages or expenses in a proceeding involving a copyright.
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 42–43)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Clean Your Dirty Face Franchise Disclosure Document, Clean Your Dirty Face does not have any pending patent applications that are material to the franchise. However, Clean Your Dirty Face and/or its affiliates claim copyrights in the Operations Manual, which contains trade secrets, handbooks, all Franchise System Websites, advertising and marketing materials, all or part of the Marks, and other portions of the Franchise System and other similar materials used in operating CYDF Facial Bars.
Clean Your Dirty Face has not registered these copyrights with the United States Registrar of Copyrights but does not need to at this time to protect them. Franchisees are allowed to use these items only as specified by Clean Your Dirty Face while operating their CYDF Facial Bar, and must stop using them if Clean Your Dirty Face directs them to.
There are currently no effective adverse determinations of the United States Copyright Office (Library of Congress) or any court regarding the copyrighted materials. Also, no agreement limits Clean Your Dirty Face's right to use or allow others to use the Confidential Information or copyrighted materials. Clean Your Dirty Face knows of no infringing uses of their copyrights which could materially affect a franchisee's using the copyrighted materials in any state. Clean Your Dirty Face does not need to protect or defend their copyrights, although they intend to do so if they determine that it is in the Franchise System's best interests. Clean Your Dirty Face may control any action involving the copyrights, even if a franchisee voluntarily brings the matter to their attention. Clean Your Dirty Face does not need to participate in a franchisee's defense nor indemnify them for damages or expenses in a proceeding involving a copyright.