Notwithstanding Article 36, no Member shall consider unlawful the performance of any of the acts referred to in that Article in respect of an integrated circuit incorporating an unlawfully reproduced layout-design or any article incorporating such an integrated circuit where the person performing or ordering such acts did not know and had no reasonable ground to know, when acquiring the integrated circuit or article incorporating such an integrated circuit, that it incorporated an unlawfully reproduced layout-design.
Ne glede na 36. člen nobena članica ne šteje kot nezakonito nobeno dejanje, ki je določeno v tistem členu v zvezi z integriranim vezjem, v katerem je vgrajena nezakonito reproducirana topografija, ali predmetom, v katerem je vgrajeno tako integrirano vezje, če oseba, ki je storila ali naročila taka dejanja, ni vedela in ni imela razumne podlage, da bi vedela, ko je pridobila integrirano vezje ali predmet, v katerem je bilo vgrajeno tako integrirano vezje, da je v njem vgrajena nezakonito reproducirana topografija.