{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-research-and-development-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-research-and-development-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1271",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Research and Development Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-research-and-development-agreements-block-exemption-order-2022",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Access to pre-existing know-how",
  "text": "(1) If the R&D agreement does not provide for joint exploitation of the results it must provide that each party to the agreement is to be granted access to any pre-existing know-how of the other parties if this know-how is indispensable for the purposes of its exploitation of the results.\n(2) An R&D agreement does not breach the condition in paragraph(1) by requiring a party to the agreement to compensate another party to the agreement for obtaining access to its pre-existing know-how, provided the compensation required is not so high as to effectively prevent such access.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.1.2023, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1271/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:52:40.487002+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}