{"identifier":"/us/usc/t17/s912","title":17,"num":"\u00a7\u202f912.","heading":"Relation to other laws","text":"\u00a7\u202f912.\nRelation to other laws\n(a) Nothing in this chapter shall affect any right or remedy held by any person under chapters 1 through 8 or 10 of this title, or under title 35.\n(b) Except as provided in\nsection 908(b) of this title\n(c) The provisions of this chapter shall preempt the laws of any State to the extent those laws provide any rights or remedies with respect to a mask work which are equivalent to those rights or remedies provided by this chapter, except that such preemption shall be effective only with respect to actions filed on or after\nJanuary 1, 1986\n(d) Notwithstanding subsection (c), nothing in this chapter shall detract from any rights of a mask work owner, whether under Federal law (exclusive of this chapter) or under the common law or the statutes of a State, heretofore or hereafter declared or enacted, with respect to any mask work first commercially exploited before\nJuly 1, 1983","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t17/s912.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t17/s912","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f912."},{"t":"heading","text":"Relation to other laws"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t17/s912/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" Nothing in this chapter shall affect any right or remedy held by any person under chapters 1 through 8 or 10 of this title, or under title 35.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t17/s912/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"content","text":" Except as provided in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 908(b) of this title","href":"/us/usc/t17/s908/b","tail":", references to \u201cthis title\u201d or \u201ctitle 17\u201d in chapters 1 through 8 or 10 of this title shall be deemed not to apply to this chapter."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t17/s912/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"content","text":" The provisions of this chapter shall preempt the laws of any State to the extent those laws provide any rights or remedies with respect to a mask work which are equivalent to those rights or remedies provided by this chapter, except that such preemption shall be effective only with respect to actions filed on or after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"January 1, 1986","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t17/s912/d","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(d)"},{"t":"content","text":" Notwithstanding subsection (c), nothing in this chapter shall detract from any rights of a mask work owner, whether under Federal law (exclusive of this chapter) or under the common law or the statutes of a State, heretofore or hereafter declared or enacted, with respect to any mask work first commercially exploited before ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"July 1, 1983","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}