Section 4: Right to protection:

4. Right to protection:___ (1) The right to layout design protection shall be available under this Ordinance if and to the extent, the layout-design is original within the meaning of section 3 and has been subject of application for registration. (2) The right to layout-design protection shall belong to the creator of the layout-design. Where several persons have jointly created a layout-design, then such right shall belong to them jointly. (3) Where the layout-design has been created in execution of commission or an employment contract, the right to layout design protection shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the person who commissioned the work or to the employee. (4) The right to layout-design protection shall be assignable or transferable by succession. (5) The right to layout-design protection shall not depend upon whether or not the integrated circuit which incorporates the registered layout-design is itself incorporated in an article.

Effective date: 2000-01-01

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