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[CITE: 17USC913]

 
                          TITLE 17--COPYRIGHTS
 
          CHAPTER 9--PROTECTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP PRODUCTS
 
Sec. 913. Transitional provisions

    (a) No application for registration under section 908 may be filed, 
and no civil action under section 910 or other enforcement proceeding 
under this chapter may be instituted, until sixty days after the date of 
the enactment of this chapter.
    (b) No monetary relief under section 911 may be granted with respect 
to any conduct that occurred before the date of the enactment of this 
chapter, except as provided in subsection (d).
    (c) Subject to subsection (a), the provisions of this chapter apply 
to all mask works that are first commercially exploited or are 
registered under this chapter, or both, on or after the date of the 
enactment of this chapter.
    (d)(1) Subject to subsection (a), protection is available under this 
chapter to any mask work that was first commercially exploited on or 
after July 1, 1983, and before the date of the enactment of this 
chapter, if a claim of protection in the mask work is registered in the 
Copyright Office before July 1, 1985, under section 908.
    (2) In the case of any mask work described in paragraph (1) that is 
provided protection under this chapter, infringing semiconductor chip 
product units manufactured before the date of the enactment of this 
chapter may, without liability under sections 910 and 911, be imported 
into or distributed in the United States, or both, until two years after 
the date of registration of the mask work under section 908, but only if 
the importer or distributor, as the case may be, first pays or offers to 
pay the reasonable royalty referred to in section 907(a)(2) to the mask 
work owner, on all such units imported or distributed, or both, after 
the date of the enactment of this chapter.
    (3) In the event that a person imports or distributes infringing 
semiconductor chip product units described in paragraph (2) of this 
subsection without first paying or offering to pay the reasonable 
royalty specified in such paragraph, or if the person refuses or fails 
to make such payment, the mask work owner shall be entitled to the 
relief provided in sections 910 and 911.

(Added Pub. L. 98-620, title III, Sec. 302, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 
3354.)

                       References in Text

    The date of enactment of this chapter, referred to in text, is the 
date of enactment of Pub. L. 98-620, which was approved Nov. 8, 1984.
