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| | Guide to Protection of Computer Software: Semiconductors |
 | | For protection to exist, the work must be original and not consist simply of designs that are staple, commonplace or familiar in the semiconductor industry or be variations of such designs combined in such a way that considered as a whole, they are not original. |
 | | It is specifically stated that protection for mask works does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated or embodied in the work". |
 | | In the case of mask works, it seems that a specific assignment of rights to the commissioner of the work is required. |
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