310 No.6 of 2016]
Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
(3) Where registration of a layout-design is not completed within
twelve months from the date of the application by reason of default
on the part of the applicant, the Registrar may, after giving notice
to the applicant in the prescribed manner, treat the application as
abandoned unless it is completed within the time specified in that
behalf in the notice.
(4) The Registrar may amend the register or a certificate of
registration for the purpose of correcting a clerical error or an
obvious mistake.
Certificate of
registration
20. The Registrar shall, after entering the layout-design in the
register, as provided in subsection (5) of section fifteen, issue a
certificate of registration, in the prescribed form, to the qualified
owner and cause to be published, in the prescribed form, a notice
of the registration in the Industrial Property Journal.
Effect of
registration
of layoutdesign
21. The effect of registration of a layout-design shall be to
protect the layout-design and grant a qualified owner, within Zambia,
subject to this Act, for the duration of the registration, the right to
exclude other persons from reproducing, making, importing, using
or disposing of the registered layout-design.
Disclosure
without
qualified
owner’s
knowledge
or consent
22. The registration of a layout-design shall not be invalid if
the layout-design was disclosed, used or known prior to the
registration of the layout-design without the knowledge or consent
of the qualified owner and the qualified owner applied for registration
of the layout-design with all reasonable diligence before learning
of the disclosure, use or knowledge.
Refusal to
register
23. Where an application is not compliant with section fifteen,
is not made in the prescribed manner and form or if the qualified
owner has not paid the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall refuse to
register the layout-design and return the application to the qualified
owner.
Duration of
protection
24. (1) A registered layout-design shall be protected for a
period of ten years from the date of application for registration and
may be renewed for a period of five years, subject to payment of a
prescribed renewal fee.
(2) Where the prescribed renewal fee is not paid, within a
prescribed period, the registration of the layout-design shall lapse,
except that the Registrar may on application and subject to the
payment of such additional prescribed fee, extend the period for
the payment of the prescribed renewal fee for a period not exceeding
six months.