Draft Act For Layout-Designs Of Integrated Circuits.

Section 1 Purpose of this law:

(i) "The purpose of this Act is to promote the development of semiconductor integrated circuits by establishing a system for the legal protection of integrated circuit layouts".

Section 2 Definitions; Subject Matter & Protection.

(1)(i) "Integrated circuit" means a product, in its final form or an intermediate form, in which the elements, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in and/or on a piece of material and which is intended to perform an electronic function;

(ii) "layout-design" is synonymous with "topography" and means the three dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, atleast one of which is an active elements, and of some or all of the interconnection of and integrated subject, or such a three dimensional disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;