Does Dog Haus own any patents?
Dog_Haus Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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We may add to, delete, or modify any or all of the Dog Haus Marks. You must modify or discontinue the use of the Dog Haus Marks, at your expense, if we modify or discontinue it. We will not compensate you if we modify or discontinue the Dog Haus Marks.
ITEM 14 PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION
We do not own any rights in or to any patents. There are no pending patent or copyright applications that are material to the franchise. We have no registered copyrights, but we claim copyright protection for the Manuals and all marketing material that may be distributed by us. We will loan you one copy of the Manuals for confidential use in the Franchised Restaurant. At our option, we may post some or all of the Manuals on a restricted website, intranet, or extranet to which you will have access. You may not disclose, publish, sell, show, or reproduce the Manuals and you must return the Manuals to us intact upon termination or expiration of your Franchise Agreement or Area Development Agreement.
We regard our recipes, our particular method of producing our sauces, and all the information contained in the Manuals, as proprietary and confidential information owned by us. You agree, as part of your Franchise Agreement, not to contest our exclusive ownership of the copyrights, trade secrets, recipes, processes, methods, procedures, formulae, techniques, and other proprietary information to which we claim exclusive rights. You are not given any rights in other trade secrets or proprietary or confidential information developed by us in the future.
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 60–61)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Dog Haus Franchise Disclosure Document, Dog Haus does not own any patents. However, they claim copyright protection for their manuals and all marketing material that may be distributed by them. Dog Haus will loan franchisees one copy of the manuals for confidential use in the franchised restaurant. At their option, Dog Haus may post some or all of the manuals on a restricted website, intranet, or extranet to which franchisees will have access. Franchisees may not disclose, publish, sell, show, or reproduce the manuals and must return them intact upon termination or expiration of the Franchise Agreement or Area Development Agreement.
Dog Haus considers their recipes, their particular method of producing their sauces, and all the information contained in the manuals as proprietary and confidential information owned by them. As part of the Franchise Agreement, franchisees agree not to contest Dog Haus's exclusive ownership of the copyrights, trade secrets, recipes, processes, methods, procedures, formulae, techniques, and other proprietary information to which they claim exclusive rights. Franchisees are not given any rights in other trade secrets or proprietary or confidential information developed by Dog Haus in the future.
Furthermore, any ideas, concepts, techniques, or materials a franchisee creates while operating as a Dog Haus franchisee, whether or not protectable intellectual property, must be promptly disclosed to Dog Haus and will become their exclusive property and a part of the Dog Haus franchise system as a work made for hire without compensation to the franchisee.