Layouts
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- (n.) The design and arrangement of components in semiconductor mask works, protected under layout-designs (topographies) law.
The company filed a suit to protect its chip layouts against unauthorized copying.
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The term 'layouts' is primarily used in intellectual property law referring to semiconductor chip design; it is usually treated as plural of 'layout' in this context.
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