Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
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(4) The Registrar may after considering the evidence and
hearing any representations or arguments by the parties, decide
whether registration is to be permitted and, if it is, with what
amendments, modifications, conditions or limitations it is to be
permitted.
(5) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar under
this section to the High Court.
18. The Registrar may upon payment of a prescribed fee by
the applicant permit—
Corrections
and
Amendments
(a) at any time whether before or after acceptance of an
application of registration under section sixteen, the
correction of any error in or in connection with the application
or permit an amendment of the application; or
(b) the correction of any error in or an amendment of, a notice
of opposition or counterstatement under section
seventeen.
19. (1) Subject to the provisions of section fifteen (5), when
an application for the registration of the layout-design has been
accepted and either—
(a) the application has not been opposed and time for notice
of opposition has expired; or
(b) the application has been opposed and the opposition has
been decided in favour of the applicant, the Registrar
shall, unless the application has been accepted in error
or unless the Tribunal or Supreme Court otherwise
directs, register the layout-design, and once registered,
the date of the application is deemed to be the date of
registration, except that the foregoing provisions of this
subsection, relating to the date as of which a layoutdesign shall be registered and to the date to be deemed
to be the registration, shall, as respects a layout-design
registered under this Act with the benefit of any
enactment relating to international arrangements, have
effect subject to the provisions of the enactment.
(2) On the registration of a layout-design, the Registrar shall
issue to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed form of the
registration thereof sealed with the seal of the Layout-Design of
Integrated Circuits Registry.
Registration