Circuit Layouts Act 1989

If, at the time when an eligible layout, a copy of an eligible layout, an integrated circuit made in accordance with an eligible layout or an article in which such an integrated circuit is incorporated was first imported or distributed by way of trade, the layout, the copy, the integrated circuit or a package containing it, or the article bore a prescribed label or mark, the fact that it bore the label or mark at that time is prima facie evidence, in an action under section 27 relating to the layout, that any person dealing at or after that time with the layout, the copy or the integrated circuit, as the case may be, has been notified of the subsistence of EL rights in the layout.

In subsection (1):

that was affixed to the eligible layout, the copy of the eligible layout, the integrated circuit made in accordance with an eligible layout or the package containing it, or the article in which such an integrated circuit is incorporated so as to be reasonably apparent to a person dealing with the layout, the copy or the integrated circuit, as the case may be; and

bearing a statement:

to the effect that EL rights subsist in the layout;

specifying the country and the year in which the layout was first commercially exploited; and

specifying the maker of the layout.