Does Ledgers currently hold any patents?
Ledgers Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
At this time, we do not hold any patents. We claim a copyright to our Operations Manual, marketing material such as our website text, and other printed material, although we have not presently filed a registration of those copyrights. We consider all of these items confidential and proprietary. Upon termination of your Franchise Agreement, you must return to us our Operations Manuals and any confidential information.
There are no material determinations of the U.S. Copyright Office or a court regarding our copyrights. There are no agreements that limits the use of our copyrights, except the confidentiality duties in your Franchise Agreement, which requires you to keep our confidential information confidential. We have no duty to protect our copyrights or defend you against claims arising from your use of our copyrighted items. We do not know of any copyright infringement that could materially affect you.
You will not directly or indirectly disclose, publish, disseminate or use our "Confidential Information" except as authorized in the Franchise Agreement. You may use our Confidential Information to perform your obligations under the Franchise Agreement, but in doing so you will only allow dissemination of our Confidential Information on a need-to-know basis and only to those individuals that have been informed of the proprietary and confidential nature of such Confidential Information. We may share performance data of your Franchised Business between us, our employees and affiliates, our franchisees and their employees. You agree to keep such performance data confidential.
Source: Item 14 — PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY INFORMATION (FDD pages 36–37)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Ledgers Franchise Disclosure Document, Ledgers does not currently hold any patents. However, Ledgers claims a copyright to its Operations Manual, marketing material such as its website text, and other printed material, although it has not presently filed a registration of those copyrights. Ledgers considers all of these items confidential and proprietary.
Upon termination of the Franchise Agreement, a franchisee must return the Operations Manuals and any confidential information to Ledgers. The Franchise Agreement outlines confidentiality duties, requiring franchisees to keep Ledgers' confidential information private.
Ledgers is not obligated to protect its copyrights or defend franchisees against claims arising from their use of copyrighted items. Franchisees are prohibited from disclosing or using Ledgers' Confidential Information, except as authorized in the Franchise Agreement, and may only disseminate it on a need-to-know basis to individuals informed of its proprietary nature. Ledgers may share performance data of a franchisee's business with its employees, affiliates, and other franchisees, with the agreement that such data remains confidential.