Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
[No. 6 of 2016 303
“exclusive licensee”, “exclusive assignee” and “exclusive
assignment” shall be construed accordingly, with the
necessary modifications;
“integrated circuit” means a product, in its final form or an
intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of
which is an active element, and some or all of the
interconnections are integrally formed in and on a piece of
material and which is intended to perform an electronic
function;
“layout-design” means a functional design which consists of
the pattern, shape or configuration of the three-dimensional
disposition of the electrical, electromagnetic or optical
elements and circuitry of an integrated circuit, and
“integrated circuit” and “topography” shall be construed
accordingly;
“material form” means any form of storage, whether visible
or not, from which a layout-design, or a substantial part of
the layout-design, can be reproduced;
“officer” means an employee or agent of the Agency;
“original” in relation to a layout-design, means the result of a
creator ’s own intellectual effort or which is not
commonplace, at the time it was made, among creators of
layout-designs and manufacturers of integrated circuits;
“prospective qualified owner” means, with respect to future
layout-design rights that are—
(a) not the subject of an agreement of the kind
referred to in subsection (1) of section thirtyseven, the person who will be the qualified
owner of those rights when they come into
existence; or
(b) the subject of an agreement of the kind referred
to in subsection (1) of section thirty-seven, the
person in whom those rights shall vest under
that subsection when they come into existence;
“protected layout-design” means a layout-design or
topography in respect of which the conditions of protection
specified in this Act are fulfilled;
“public non-commercial purpose” means an act which is
done—
(a) for the defence or national security of Zambia; or