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India has the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 for the similar protection. Japan relies on "The Act Concerning the Circuit Layout of a Semiconductor Integrated Circuit". Brazil has enacted Law No. 11484, of 2007, to regulate the protection and registration of integrated circuit topography.
The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (or SCPA) is an act of the US Congress that makes the layouts of integrated circuits legally protected upon registration, and hence illegal to copy without permission. It is an integrated circuit layout design protection law.
(ii) any Act of a Legislature subject to the condition that such Act is reproduced or published together with any commentary thereon or any other original matter; (iii) the report of any committee, commission, council, board or other like body appointed by the government if such report has been laid on the Table of the Legislature, unless the ...
Layout view of a simple CMOS operational amplifier. In integrated circuit design, integrated circuit (IC) layout, also known IC mask layout or mask design, is the representation of an integrated circuit in terms of planar geometric shapes which correspond to the patterns of metal, oxide, or semiconductor layers that make up the components of the integrated circuit.
A common sui generis design right protects the design or topography of semiconductor materials, particularly integrated circuits. These are protected internationally by the IPIC Treaty of 1989, (see Integrated circuit layout design protection), and in the European Union by Directive 87/54/EEC.
The US has maintained its lead in chip design and research and development, led by companies like Intel and Nvidia , but it manufactures just 10% of the global chip supply.
DPIIT is also responsible for intellectual property rights relating to patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights, layout-designs of integrated circuits, and geographical indication of goods, and oversees the initiative relating to their promotion and protection. [8]
After a yearslong trend of outsourcing skilled chipmaking labor to Asia, the leading semiconductor trade group estimates the U.S. is currently short roughly 67,000 skilled workers—or 58% of all ...