Definition: Know-how

Category: General concept

"Know-how" means a package of non-patented practical information, resulting from experience and testing by the franchisor, which is secret, substantial and identified.

"Secret" means that the know-how, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, is not generally known or easily accessible; it is not limited in the narrow sense that each individual component of the know-how should be totally unknown or unobtainable outside the franchisor's business. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31988R4087:EN:HTML