[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 203 (Friday, October 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 54232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25982]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Docket No. C-2976]


James H. Haren and International Bartending Institute, Inc.

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice of period for public comment on petition to modify 
consent order.

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SUMMARY: James H. Haren, an individual respondent in Docket No. C-2976, 
and International Bartending Institute, Inc., as successor to 
International Inventors Inc., East, the corporate respondent in Docket 
No. C-2976, are subject to an order requiring them, among other things, 
to give a copy of the order to their ``present of future * * * 
franchise owners * * * who sell [  ] or promote [  ] the sale of 
respondents' products or services.'' James H. Haren and International 
Bartending Institute, Inc. (``IBI'') filed a petition on September 12, 
1995, requesting the Commission to reopen and alter, modify or set 
aside in part the order to the extent that they are required to give a 
copy of the order to present or future IBI franchise owners. This 
document announces the public comment period on this petition.

DATES: The deadline for filing comments in this matter is November 13, 
1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of the Secretary, 
Federal Trade Commission, 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20580. Requests for copies of the petition should be 
sent to the Public Reference Branch, Room 130.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elena Paoli, Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC 20580, (202) 326-
2974.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The order in Docket No. C-2976 was issued on 
July 5, 1979, and reported at 94 F.T.C. 111. The order prohibited Haren 
and a new-defunct company, International Inventors, Inc., East, from 
making various misrepresentations regarding the promotion of inventors' 
ideas. In 1994, the Federal Trade Commission charged Haren and his 
current company, IBI, a franchisor of bartending schools, with 
violating the order in Docket No. C-2976 by not providing a copy of the 
order to the present and future franchise owners of IBI schools. The 
complaint also charged Haren and IBI with violating the Commission's 
rule governing Disclosure Requirements and Prohibitions Concerning 
Franchising and Business Opportunity Ventures, 16 CFR Part 436. Haren 
and IBI settled the Commission charges by paying a $50,000 civil 
penalty and signing a consent decree that was filed in federal district 
court. See U.S. v. International Bartending Institute, Inc., and James 
H. Haren, Civ. No. 94-1104-A (E.D. Va., August 22, 1994).
    Haren and IBI argue that changed conditions of fact and the public 
interest require modifying the order in Docket No. C-2976 because the 
order only applied to present or future franchisees of International 
Inventors, Inc., East, and because prospective franchisees of IBI 
receive full disclosure of the Commission's order in IBI's Uniform 
Franchise Offering Circular. Haren and IBI argue that prospective IBI 
franchisees are confused by the order because the order involves an 
invention promotion company and does not involve a bartending school 
franchise business.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-25982 Filed 10-19-95; 8:45 am]
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