308 No. 6 of 2016]
Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
(5) The Registrar may, where the Registrar determines after
accepting an application for registration of a layout-design but before
registering the layout-design that the layout-design does not comply
with subsection (1), and after hearing the applicant on the matter,
withdraw the acceptance of the application.
(6) A layout-design when registered in accordance with
subsection (5) is be deemed to have been registered from the date
of application.
Advertisements of
application
16. (1) Where an application of a layout-design has been
accepted, the applicant shall, as soon as may be after acceptance,
advertise the application as accepted in the prescribed manner,
and the advertisement shall set forth all amendments or
modifications subject to the application.
(2)
Where after advertisement of an application:
(a) an error in the application has been corrected; or
(b) the application has been permitted to be amended under
section eighteen,
the Registrar may in the Registrar’s discretion cause the application
to be advertised again or, in any case falling under subsection 2(b),
may, instead of causing the application to be advertised again, notify
the applicant in the prescribed manner the correction or amendment
made in the application.
Opposition
to
Registration
17. (1) Any person may, within two months from the date of
the advertisement or re-advertisement of an application for
registration give notice to the Registrar in writing in the prescribed
manner and accompanied by a statement of the grounds of
opposition.
(2) The Registrar may allow for an extension of the notice
period, not exceeding one month on application made to the
Registrar in the prescribed manner.
(3) The Registrar shall serve a copy of the notice on the
applicant for registration and, within two months from the receipt
by the applicant of such copy of the notice of opposition, the
applicant shall send to the Registrar in the prescribed manner a
counterstatement of the grounds on which the applicant relies for
the application and if the applicant does not do so, the applicant is
deemed to have abandoned the application.