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Integrated Circuit Topographies
The Integrated Circuit Topography Act1 was enacted in 1990 in order to provide a sui generis form of intellectual property protection for integrated circuits. The Act came into force in 1993. Impetus for the legislation came largely from the semiconductor industry, which pushed for similar legislation in the United States beginning in the late 1970s.
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1
SC 1990, c 37
2
David Vaver, Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011) at 73.
3
Robert Tomkowicz, Intellectual Property Overlaps: Theory, Strategies, and Solutions (London: Routledge, 2012) at 68.
4
Vaver, supra.
5
Vaver, supra.
6
Inquiry to CIPO, July 2013 (as of that date, there were only 74 registrations in total).
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