Staff Report On The Proposed Revised Ftc Franchise Rule Released August 25 2004

The Federal Trade Commission released this Staff Report on its Franchise Rule, entitled "Disclosure Requirements and Prohibitions Concerning Franchising and Business Opportunity Ventures," on August 25, 2004. The Report sets forth the staff's recommendations to the Commission on the various proposed amendments to the Franchise Rule. The Commission has not reviewed or approved the Report. Comments on the Staff Report will be accepted through November 12, 2004.

After nearly 10 years of study, The Federal Trade Commission staff issued its Report on the Proposed Revised FTC Franchise Rule on August 25, 2004. The report sets out the FTC staff’s suggestions on how the Franchise Rule should be revised For The first time since it was issued in 1979. The FTC invites public comment on the report. This title contains the full text of the 271-page staff report, 137 pages of underlying exhibits, and an analysis of the report by prominent franchise attorney David J. Kaufmann.

Compiled into an easy-to-use reference, this book includes extensively researched case law from August 2004 to August 2005, and will cut timely research by putting the latest review and analysis on franchise and distribution law at the user's fingertips.

This book sheds light on all aspects of earnings claims, including defining what an earnings claim really is, the origins of its regulation under the franchise disclosure laws, how a franchisor should prepare an earnings claim, how a franchisee should use an earnings claim, how a franchisee may attack lawful and unlawful earnings claims, how a franchisor may defend against such attacks, and how the government franchise enforcement authorities, investigate unlawful earnings claim activity.

This edition summarizes developments in antitrust laws during 2004 in the courts, at the agencies, and in Congress, including three Supreme Court cases and three litigated merger cases.