Archive | 2019
The Valuation of Know-How
Abstract
The know-how expresses the concept of know-how , straddling the organization in series and technology, legally protected as an industrial secret. The sharing and transferability of know-how is the basis of its economic appraisal, which is based on complementary methodologies projecting the future usefulness of the costs incurred, the relief from royalties by the license or the differential income from internal exploitation. Unlike patents, the know-how is not independently negotiable and is more difficult to enforce against third parties, but at the same time it retains some characteristics of confidentiality that with the patenting in part must be disclosed.