DECREE ON THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT IN THE LAYOUTDESIGN (TOPOGRAPHY) OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
(Unofficial translation)
(946/1991; amendments up to 694/1999 included) Application for Registration Section 1 Registration of layoutdesigns (topographies) is applied for from the National Board of
Patents and Registration, hereinafter the ‘registering authority’. Section 2 Applications for registration shall consist of an application document and accompanying
documents.
The application document shall be signed by the applicant or his representative and it
shall contain:
- (1)
- the applicant’s name, domicile, address and, if the applicant has appointed a representative, also the representative’s name and address;
- (2)
- the year in which the layoutdesign was created and the creator’s name and address and, if he is not a Finnish citizen or is not domiciled in Finland, also his citizenship and habitual residence;
- (3)
- if the layoutdesign has been distributed to the public before filing a registration application, an indication of the date when the layoutdesign was first distributed to the public;
- (4)
- a concise title for the layoutdesign referred to in the registration application;
- (5)
- an assurance to the effect that the layoutdesign is the result of creative and original intellectual work and that it has not been copied directly from another layoutdesign; and
- (6)
- a list of the documents accompanying the application document. The application document shall be accompanied by:
- (1)
- all materials necessary for the identification of the layoutdesign;
- (2)
- if the applicant has appointed a representative, the power of attorney issued to the representative; and
- (3)
- if a person other than the applicant has created the layoutdesign, a document providing proof of the applicant’s entitlement thereto.
The application document shall be accompanied by a proof of payment of the registration fee.
Section 3
The application shall be written in Finnish or Swedish in compliance with the applicable language laws. The title of the layoutdesign shall be given both in Finnish and Swedish. A translation