Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
[No. 6 of 2016 301
GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
No. 6 of 2016
Date of Assent: 5th April, 2016
An Act to establish a register for layout-designs or
topographies of integrated circuits; to provide for a
transparent legal framework for the protection,
registration, rights over, infringement or use of, and access
to, layout-designs or topographies of integrated circuits;
to recognise, protect and support the inalienable rights
and duties of qualified owners over their layout-designs
or topographies of integrated circuits; to provide for the
authorisation of exclusive assignments or licences by a
qualified owner or prospective qualified owner of layoutdesign rights to an assignee or a licensee; to establish
streamlined procedures for obtaining a compulsory
licence, licence to remedy anti-competitive practices and
use of layout-designs or topographies of integrated circuits
for public or non-commercial purposes; to give effect to
the provisions of the World Trade Organisation Agreement
on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights,
and any other relevant international treaty or convention
to which Zambia is a State Party; and to provide for matters
connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
[6th April, 2016
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia
Enactment
PART I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
1. This Act may be cited as the Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits Act, 2016, and shall come into operation on such date as
the Minister may, by statutory instrument, appoint.
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