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一、前言近年来在半导体芯片上制造的集成电路已获得了显著的经济效益,集成电路被广泛应用在诸如计算机、飞机、汽车、洗衣机等众多的产品之中。为了研制和改进集成电路的布图设计需花费巨大的投资(包括资金方面的投入和专家时间方面的投入).但在实际中却常常出现非法复制布图设计的现象。虽然进行这种复制需要一定的技术手段并耗费一定的投资,但复制集成电路的布图设计所耗用的投资仅是研制和改进该电路布图设计所需耗费的几分之一或更少一些。因此,对集成电路的布图设计进行法律保护是很有必要的。对集成电路的布图设计的
I. INTRODUCTION Integrated circuits fabricated on semiconductor chips have gained significant economic benefits in recent years and integrated circuits are widely used in a wide range of products such as computers, aircraft, automobiles, washing machines and the like. In order to develop and improve the layout design of integrated circuits, it takes a huge investment (including investment in funds and investment in expert time), but in practice, the illegal copy layout design often appears. Although this kind of copying requires a certain amount of technical means and a certain amount of investment, the investment in the layout design of the duplicated integrated circuit is only a fraction of the cost or less required to develop and improve the circuit layout design some. Therefore, the legal protection of layout design of integrated circuits is necessary. Layout design on integrated circuit