ct amended section 803(a) by inserting "112"
before "114" in paragraphs (1) and (5) and by substituting "those
sections" in lieu of "that section" in paragraph (5). Pub. L. No.
105-304, 112 Stat. 2860, 2902.

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Chapter 9 [1]

Protection of Semiconductor Chip Products

+ 901. Definitions
+ 902. Subject matter of protection
+ 903. Ownership, transfer, licensure, and recordation [2]
+ 904. Duration of protection
+ 905. Exclusive rights in mask works
+ 906. Limitation on exclusive rights: reverse engineering; first sale
+ 907. Limitation on exclusive rights: innocent infringement
+ 908. Registration of claims of protection
+ 909. Mask work notice
+ 910. Enforcement of exclusive rights
+ 911. Civil actions
+ 912. Relation to other laws
+ 913. Transitional provisions
+ 914. International transitional provisions

Section 901. Definitions

(a) As used in this chapter

(1) a "semiconductor chip product" is the final or intermediate form of
any product-

(A) having two or more layers of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor
material, deposited or otherwise placed on, or etched away or otherwise
removed from, a piece of semiconductor material in accordance with a
predetermined pattern; and

(B) intended to perform electronic circuitry functions;

(2) a "mask work" is a series of related images, however fixed or
encoded-

(A) having or representing the predetermined, three-dimensional pattern
of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor material present or removed
from the layers of a semiconductor chip product; and

(B) in which series the relation of the images to one another is that
each image has the pattern of the surface of one form of the
semiconductor chip product;

(3) a mask work is "fixed" in a semiconductor chip product when its
embodiment in the product is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit
the mask work to be perceived or reproduced from the product for a
period of more than transitory duration;

(4) to "distribute" means to sell, or to lease, bail, or otherwise
transfer, or to offer to sell, lease, bail, or otherwise transfer;

(5) to "commercially exploit" a mask work is to distribute to the public
for commercial purposes a semiconductor chip product embodying the mask
work; except that such term includes an offer to sell or transfer a
semiconductor chip product only when the offer is