An Act to establish a register for layout-designs or
topographies of integrated circuits; to provide for a
transparent legal framework for the protection,
registration, rights over, infringement or use of, and access
to, layoutdesigns or topographies of integrated circuits;
to recognise, protect and support the inalienable rights
and duties of qualified owners over their layout-designs
or topographies of integrated circuits; to provide for the
authorisation of exclusive assignments or licences by a
qualified owner or prospective qualified owner of
layoutdesign rights to an assignee or a licensee; to
establish streamlined procedures for obtaining a
compulsory licence, licence to remedy anticompetitive
practices and use of layout-designs or topographies of
integrated circuits for public or noncommercial purposes;
to give effect to the provisions of the World Trade
Organisation Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights, and any other relevant
international treaty or convention to which Zambia is a
State Party; and to provide for matters connected with, or
incidental to, the foregoing.