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Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Preliminary
3. No protection for ideas
Feedback & supportThis Act does not apply in relation to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a layout‑design.
layout-design
Defined · s 2
“layout-design” means the 3-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements of an integrated circuit (at least one of which is an active element), and of some or all of the interconnections of an integrated circuit, or such a 3‑dimensional disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;