Law

The article investigates the correlation between franchise agreement and trademark license under the provisions of lithuanian Civil Code and trade­mark law. the analysis shows that both contracts are autonomous and trademark license is usually the “core” inside of a franchise agreement. Franchise agreement is qualified mainly on the analysis of righ­ts and obligations of the parties, the most important of which is quality control provision. Despite the fact that franchise agreement regulations provide with a number of detailed provisions of various aspects of a contract, such provisions cannot be applied unconsciously to a trademark license. However, even in such situation, certain legal questions of a trademark license are interpreted in the same way as in franchise agreement.