The Contracting Parties
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Convinced that assuring international protection for the intellectual
property rights of the creators of layout-designs (topographies) of microchips
not only is equitable but also promotes technological and economic progress
and the acquisition of foreign technology,
Desirous to serve equity, technological and economic progress and the
international exchange of technological achievements, and to establish, at the
international level, a system of protection that serves the public interest
through a proper balance among all the private interests involved,
With a view to laying the groundwork for the promotion of broader
dissemination of microchip products and the transfer of technology towards
developing countries in particular,
Have concluded the following Treaty:
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