Enumerate the key provisions for scope of Protection of Integrated Circuit (IC) as Intellectual Property Rights as per TRIPS

The TRIP’S Agreement provides protection to the layout designs of integrated circuits for a period of 10 years. But the protection shall lapse 15 years after the creation of the layout design.

Layout designs of integrated circuits are a field in the protection of intellectual property.

In United States intellectual property law, a "mask work" is a two or three-dimensional layout or topography of an integrated circuit (IC or "chip"), i.e. the arrangement on a chip of semiconductor devices such as transistors and passive electronic components such as resistors and interconnections. The layout is called a mask work because, in photolithographic processes, the multiple etched layers within actual ICs are each created using a mask, called the photomask, to permit or block the light at specific locations, sometimes for hundreds of chips on a wafer simultaneously.

Because of the functional nature of the mask geometry, the designs cannot be effectively protected under copyright law (except perhaps as decorative art). Similarly, because individual lithographic mask works are not clearly protectable subject matter, they also cannot be effectively protected under patent law, although any processes implemented in the work may _____ ___ _______ _________ ______ __________.
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