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POWER OF ATTORNEY OF IP HOLDERS
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that in connection with the Management Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2014, as amended and restated as of September 5, 2018 and as further amended and restated as of June 5, 2019 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Management Agreement”; all capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Management Agreement), among IHOP Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Applebee’s Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (each, a “Co-Issuer” and together with their respective successors and assigns, the “Co-Issuers”), IHOP SPV Guarantor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Applebee’s SPV Guarantor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, IHOP Restaurants LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, IHOP Franchisor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, IHOP Property LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, IHOP Leasing LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Applebee’s Restaurants LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Applebee’s Franchisor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and the other Franchise Entities party thereto from time to time (collectively, the “Securitization Entities”), Dine Brands Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Manager”) Applebee’s Services, Inc. and International House Of Pancakes, LLC (each, a “Sub-manager”), and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee, and consented to by Midland Loan Services, a division of PNC Bank, National Association, as Control Party and Servicer, and FTI Consulting, Inc., asBack-Up Manager, the undersigned Franchise Entities hereby appoint the Manager and any and all officers thereof as its true and lawful attorney in fact, with full power of substitution, in connection with the IP Services described below being performed with respect to the Securitization IP, with full irrevocable power and authority in the place of the applicable Franchise Entity that is the owner thereof and in the name of the applicable Franchise Entity or in its own name as agent of such Franchise Entity, to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments which may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the foregoing, subject to the Management Agreement, including, without limitation, the full power to perform:
(a) searching, screening and clearing After-Acquired Securitization IP to assess patentability, registrability and the risk of potential infringement;
(b) filing, prosecuting and maintaining applications and registrations for the Securitization IP in the applicable Franchise Entity’s name in the United States, including timely filing of evidence of use, applications for renewal and affidavits of use and/or incontestability, timely paying of all registration and maintenance fees, responding to third-party oppositions of applications or challenges to registrations, and responding to any office actions, reexaminations, interferences, inter partes reviews, post grant reviews, or other office or examiner requests, reviews or requirements;
(c) monitoring third-party use and registration of Trademarks and taking actions the Manager deems appropriate to oppose or contest the use and any application or registration for Trademarks that could reasonably be expected to infringe, dilute or otherwise violate the Securitization IP or the applicable Franchise Entity’s rights therein;
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