Layout-designs of Integrated
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(f) the service of notices and other documents with respect
to the register; or
(g) any matter required to be provided for in relation to the
register.
35. (1) The Registrar shall arrange the periodic publication
of an Industrial Property Journal which shall contain particulars of
applications for layout-designs or topographies of integrated circuits
and other proceedings or matters which the Registrar may consider
desirable or which shall be published in the Journal.
(2) The Registrar shall make provision for selling of copies of
the Industrial Property Journal at such price and in such manner as
the Board may direct.
Industrial
property
journal
PART III
OWNERSHIP, LAYOUT-DESIGN RIGHTS AND LICENSING
36. (1) Subject to this Act or an agreement referred to in Ownership
of layoutsubsection (1) of section thirty-seven, the qualified owner of a design
layout-design shall be as follows:
(a) where the layout-design is not created as a result of a
commission or in the course of employment, the creator
of the layout-design;
(b) where the layout-design is created as a result of a
commission, the person who commissioned the layout-
design; and
(c) where the layout-design is not created as a result of a
commission but is created by an employee in the course
of employment, the employer.
(2)
Any condition in a contract of employment is void if it—
(a) requires an employee to assign to the employer a layout-
design made by the employee otherwise than within the
course of employment; or
(b) restricts the right of an employee in a design made by the
employee more than one year after the termination of
the contract of employment.
(3) A qualified person may be a qualified owner even if the
qualified person shares ownership with a person who is not a qualified
person.