The implied duty to cooperate does not require franchisors to take positive investigative steps to protect a franchisee's exclusive territory, but it prohibits the franchisor from authorising another franchisee to operate in the exclusive territory. Franchisees claiming loss from territorial incursions must frame their claim as loss of opportunity subject to discount.
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