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Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 1999 s 7

s 7 Duration of protection

7. A layout-design ceases to be a protected layout‑design —(a) if it is first commercially exploited within 5 calendar years after the calendar year in which it was created, at the end of the 10th calendar year after the calendar year in which it was first commercially exploited; (b) in any other case, at the end of the period of 15 calendar years after the calendar year in which it was created.

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