Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
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“register” means the register of layout-designs and integrated
circuits registered and maintained in accordance with
section twelve;
“registered layout-design” means a layout-design registered
in accordance with this Act or any other law before the
commencement of this Act;
“Registrar” means the person appointed as Registrar under
the Patents and Companies Registration Agency Act, 2010;
“reproduction” means the act or process of copying a layoutdesign in material form, whether directly or indirectly;
Act No. 15
of 2010
“World Trade Organisation” means the World Trade
Organisation established by the Marrakesh Agreement
done at Marrakesh on 15th April, 1994; and
“writing” includes an electronic message if the information
contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for
subsequent reference.
(2)
In this Act a reference to—
(a) doing an act to a layout-design includes doing that act to a
substantial part of the layout-design; and
(b) a copy of a layout-design includes a copy of a substantial
part of the layout-design.
3. (1) This Act shall apply to registered layout-designs and
topographies of integrated circuits.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an action relating to a
layout-design, a copy of the layout-design or an integrated circuit,
registered under any other law, before the commencement of this
Act, shall be dealt with in accordance with the law that applied
before the commencement of this Act.
(3) Nothing in this Act shall be considered to affect any action
taken under any other written law relating to the protection of
intellectual property rights that is pending on the commencement
of this Act and such action shall be continued and determined in
accordance with the applicable written law.
(4) Despite subsection (1), this Act shall not apply to any idea,
process or system, method of operation, concept, principle or
discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained,
illustrated or embodied in a layout-design.
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