Art. 5 Ordinance of April 26, 1993, on the Protection of the Topographies of Semiconductor Products (OTo) - Identification Documents

The documents necessary for the identification and concrete representation of the topography are as follows: a. drawings or photographs of representations (layouts) used to manufacture the semiconductor product; b. drawings or photographs of masks or parts of masks used to manufacture the semiconductor product; c. drawings or photographs of different layers of the semiconductor product.

Additionally, data carriers on which layers of the topography are recorded in digital form or printed on paper, as well as the semiconductor product itself, may also be submitted.

The documents must be produced in A4 format (21 × 29.7 cm) or folded to this size. Drawings, plans, or large-surface photographs that cannot be folded must be submitted in the form of rolls whose length and diameter do not exceed 1.5 m and 15 cm respectively.

Insofar as the IPI accepts that the identification documents be submitted electronically (Art. 2 b), it may set requirements that deviate from those stated in this article; it publishes these appropriately.

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