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The Semiconductor Products (Protection of Topography) Regulations 1987

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6.—(1) Topography right is infringed, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, by any person who, in the United Kingdom, during the subsistence of the right and without the licence of the owner of the right, does or authorises any other person to do any act within the exclusive right provided for in regulation 4(1) above.

(2) Topography right in one original topography is not infringed by creating another original topography as a result of an analysis or evaluation falling within regulation 4(2)(b) above, making a reproduction of that other topography or dealing in such a reproduction or a semiconductor product incorporating such a reproduction.

(3) Topography right is not infringed by dealing in a reproduction or a semiconductor product if the person dealing in it does not know, and has no reasonable grounds to believe, that the dealing is an infringement.

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