Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part II · Protection of Layout-Designs
8. Duration of protection
Feedback & supportA layout-design shall be protected under this Act for a period of ten years from the date the layout-design is first commercially exploited in Malaysia or elsewhere.
layout-design
“layout-design” means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements of an integrated circuit and some or all of the interconnections of the integrated circuit or such a three-dimensional disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the protection granted to a layout-design under this Act shall lapse fifteen years after the date the layout-design is created.
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