Layout Design Order, 1999 · As enacted · Part III
18. 117
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
{a} an eligible layout design is commercially exploited, whether in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere by, or with the licence of, the owner of the layout design rights in that layout design; and
eligible layout design
"eligible layout design" means an original layout design - (a} the maker or, in relation to a jointly-made layout design, any one or more of the makers, of which was, at the time that layout design was made, an eligible person; or {b) that was first commercially exploited in Brunei Darussalam or in a qualifying country;
Commercial exploitation of eligible layout design previously exploited under licence.
Use by
Government for security, defence, etc.
{b) a person acquires a copy of that layout design, or an integrated circuit made in accordance with that layout design, as a result of that commercial exploitation, it is not an infringement of the layout design rights in that layout design if he commercially exploits the copy or integrated circuit in
layout design
"layout design" means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and of some or all of the interconnections, of an integrated circuit; and includes such a three-dimensional Meaning of "commercially exploited". disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
Brunei Darussalam.
Notwithstanding sections 26 and 27, and subsection (2l of section 31, of the Emergency (Copyright) Order, 1999 to the extent that they apply to imported articles, where the commercial exploitation of an integrated circuit containing a copy or adaptation of a work (being an integrated circuit made in accordance with an eligible layout design) is not, under this section, an infringement of the layout design rights in that layout design, that commercial exploitation is not an infringement of the copyright in that work unless the making of that copy or adaptation was an infringement of that copyright.
integrated circuit
"integrated circuit" means a circuit, in its fmal or an intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in or on a piece of material and that is intended to perform an electronic function;
Expressions used in subsection (2) that are defi.ned in the
Emergency (Copyright) Order, 1999 have the same meaning as they have in that Order.
Terms defined in s 2
eligible layout design
Defined · s 2"eligible layout design" means an original layout design - (a} the maker or, in relation to a jointly-made layout design, any one or more of the makers, of which was, at the time that layout design was made, an eligible person; or {b) that was first commercially exploited in Brunei Darussalam or in a qualifying country;
integrated circuit
Defined · s 2"integrated circuit" means a circuit, in its fmal or an intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in or on a piece of material and that is intended to perform an electronic function;
layout design
Defined · s 2"layout design" means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and of some or all of the interconnections, of an integrated circuit; and includes such a three-dimensional Meaning of "commercially exploited". disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
layout design rights
Defined · s 2"layout design rights" means the exclusive rights specified in section 12 in relation to an eligible layout design;
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