Fully Microcontroller Cloning is to copy the protected layout design as a whole in its own microcontroller product without any changes. In this case, the complete form of the protected layout design can be found in the infringing layout design.
The copied layout design is completely reproduced by the protected layout design, without any difference, or in the copied layout design, there is a complete reproduction of the protected layout design, which is also called the critical part of the design, and some differences on those areas which is NOT critical layout design;
This situation is not too difficult to identify. As long as the two microcontroller layout designs are compared, if they are identical or completely contain the protected layout design, Cloning Microcontroller memory infringement can be considered set up.
Although national laws stipulate that layout designs that are independently created by the original designer, even if they are the same as the protected layout design, they are not infringing. But in practice, this situation is hard to come by. Because in the layout design process, although there are some basic rules to follow, it is basically impossible to have two identical layout designs.
Especially in the layout design of very large scale integrated circuit cloning, there are hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of electronic components, and the probability that the arrangement and combination of these electronic components are completely identical is very low and negligible.
So as long as the two layout designs are identical, it can almost be concluded that one of them must be Fully Microcontroller Cloning.