European Union

Albania

Layout-designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits

40. Please explain what protection your national legislation grants to right holders against the unlawful importation, sale or distribution for commercial purposes of topographies including integrated circuits or other articles in which a topography is incorporated in accordance with Article 36 of the TRIPS Agreement.

Article 9 of our law is in full compliance with Article 36 of the TRIPS Agreement: The holder of the protected topography shall be granted exclusive rights of commercial exploitation, including the right to authorize or prohibited any of the following acts: - reproduction of the topography by any means or in any form; - importation, sale or other form of distribution of the topography or products that include integrated circuit incorporating the respective topography. The exclusive rights referred to in Paragraph 1 shall not extend to any concept, process, system or technical embodied in the topography other than the topography itself.