Conditions for granting of legal protection

The legal protection shall extend only to original topography. The topography created as a result of creative activity of the author shall be deemed original. The topography shall be admitted original until proved otherwise.

The legal protection shall not be given to a topography which set of elements is well-known to developers and manufacturers of an integrated circuit on the date of its creation.

The topography consisting of elements which are well-known to developers and manufacturers of an integrated microcircuit on the date of creation shall be granted legal protection only in the event that the set of such elements as a whole is original.

The legal protection shall not be extended to ideas, methods, systems, technology or any encoded information, which can be embodied in a topography.