(5) [Articles Temporarily or Accidentally Entering the Territory of a
Contracting Party] Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(iii), where a microchip is
part of a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or space craft entering, temporarily or
accidentally, the territory of a Contracting Party, the said Contracting Party
shall not consider such entering as an importation in the sense of that
provision. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, "territory" also means
territorial waters and airspace.
(6) [Exhaustion of Rights]
Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(iii), any
Contracting Party may consider lawful the performance, without the
authorization of the holder of the right, of any of the acts referred to in
that provision where the act is performed in respect of a protected
layout-design (topography), or in respect of a microchip in which such a
layout-design (topography) is incorporated, that has been put on the market
by, or with the consent of, the holder of the right.
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