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Layout Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits Act, 1996 (Act No. 19 of 1996), Trinidad and Tobago
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Year of Version
1997
Dates
Entry into force:
December 1, 1997
Published:
August 6, 1996
Assented:
August 2, 1996
Type of Text
Main IP Laws
Subject Matter
Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits
Notes
The notification by Trinidad and Tobago to the WTO under article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'The Act protects layout-designs of integrated circuits against reproduction, importation, selling and other distribution and provides protection for layout-designs or integrated circuits which are original. The right to protection belongs to the creator, which right may be assigned or transferred even before the filing of an application. The period of protection runs for ten (10) years and the period begins either on the date on which the layout-design was first commercially exploited or if not, on the date of filing the application.
The applications for integrated circuits are filed with the Controller of the Intellectual Property Office appointed under S3 of the Patent Act 1996.
The Act provides for the registration of layout-designs without examination of the originality of the design, the applicant's entitlement to protection or the correctness of the facts stated in the application.
The Act further creates criminal offences of acts of knowingly preferring or performing without authorization prohibited in Clause 6.'
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Loi de 1996 sur les schémas de configuration (topographies) de circuits intégrés (Loi n° 19 de 1996)
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