Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
Bare Act · 2000
An Act to provide for the protection of semiconductor integrated circuits layout-designs and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- Act number
- 37 of 2000
- Enacted
- 4 September 2000
- Contents
- 96 sections · 10 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — The Register And Conditions Of Registration
- Section 3 – Registrar of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits layout-design
- Section 4 – Power of Registrar to transfer pending matters
- Section 5 – Registry
- Section 6 – Register of Layout-Designs (preview)
- Section 7 – Prohibition of registration of certain layout-designs (preview)
Chapter III — Procedure For And Duration Of Registration
- Section 8 – Application for registration (preview)
- Section 9 – Withdrawal of acceptance (preview)
- Section 10 – Advertisement of application (preview)
- Section 11 – Opposition to registration (preview)
- Section 12 – Correction and amendment (preview)
- Section 13 – Registration (preview)
- Section 14 – Jointly owned layout-design (preview)
- Section 15 – Duration of registration (preview)
Chapter IV — Effect Of Registration
- Section 16 – No action of infringement of unregistered layout-design (preview)
- Section 17 – Rights conferred by registration (preview)
- Section 18 – Infringement of layout-design (preview)
- Section 19 – Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity (preview)
Chapter V — Assignment And Transmission
- Section 20 – Power of Registered Proprietor to assign and give receipts (preview)
- Section 21 – Assignability and transmissibility of registered layout-design (preview)
- Section 22 – Conditions for assignment otherwise than in connection with the goodwill of a business (preview)
- Section 23 – Registration of assignments and transmissions (preview)
Chapter VI — Use Of Layout-Design And Registered Users
- Section 24 – Registered users (preview)
- Section 25 – Registration as registered user (preview)
- Section 26 – Power of Registrar for cancellation of registration as registered user (preview)
- Section 27 – Power of Registrar to call for information relating to agreement in respect of registered users (preview)
- Section 28 – Right of registered user to take proceedings against infringement (preview)
- Section 29 – Registered user not to have right of assignment or transmission (preview)
Chapter VII — Rectification And Correction Of The Register
- Section 30 – Power to rectify the register (preview)
- Section 31 – Correction of register (preview)
Chapter VIII — Appellate Board
- Section 32 – Establishment of Layout-Design Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 33 – Composition of Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 34 – Qualifications for appointment as Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, or other Members (preview)
- Section 35 – Term of office of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Members (preview)
- Section 36 – Vice-Chairperson or senior-most Member to act as Chairperson or discharge his function in certain circumstances (preview)
- Section 37 – Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and other Members (preview)
- Section 38 – Resignation and removal (preview)
- Section 39 – Staff of Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 40 – Application to the Appellate Board to determine royalty (preview)
- Section 41 – Power of the Board to cancel registration (preview)
- Section 42 – Appeal to Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 43 – Procedure and powers of Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 44 – Bar of jurisdiction of courts, etc (preview)
- Section 45 – Bar to appear before Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 46 – Conditions as to making of interim order (preview)
- Section 47 – Power of Chairperson to transfer cases from one Bench to another (preview)
- Section 48 – Procedure for application for rectification, etc., before Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 49 – Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings (preview)
- Section 50 – Registrar to refer certain disputes to the Board (preview)
- Section 51 – Power of the Board to permit certain uses (preview)
- Section 52 – Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board (preview)
- Section 53 – Appeal (preview)
- Section 54 – Powers of High Courts to make rules (preview)
- Section 55 – Transitional provisions (preview)
Chapter IX — Offences, Penalties And Procedure
- Section 56 – Penalty for infringement of layout-design (preview)
- Section 57 – Penalty for falsely representing a layout-design as registered (preview)
- Section 58 – Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry (preview)
- Section 59 – Penalty for falsification of entries in the register (preview)
- Section 60 – Forfeiture of goods (preview)
- Section 61 – Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business (preview)
- Section 62 – Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused (preview)
- Section 63 – Offences by companies (preview)
- Section 64 – Cognizance of certain offences (preview)
- Section 65 – Costs of defence or prosecution (preview)
- Section 66 – Information as to commission of offence (preview)
- Section 67 – Punishment of abetment in India of acts done out of India (preview)
Chapter X — Miscellaneous
- Section 68 – Protection of security of India (preview)
- Section 69 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 70 – Certain persons to be public servants (preview)
- Section 71 – Implied warranty on sale of layout-design, etc (preview)
- Section 72 – Powers of Registrar (preview)
- Section 73 – Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar (preview)
- Section 74 – Evidence before Registrar (preview)
- Section 75 – Death of party to a proceeding (preview)
- Section 76 – Extention of time (preview)
- Section 77 – Abandonment (preview)
- Section 78 – Preliminary advice by the Registrar (preview)
- Section 79 – Registered user to be impleaded in certain proceedings (preview)
- Section 80 – Evidence of entries in register, etc., and things done by the Registrar (preview)
- Section 81 – Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc (preview)
- Section 82 – Certificate of validity (preview)
- Section 83 – Address for service (preview)
- Section 84 – Agents (preview)
- Section 85 – Layout-design registered by an agent or representative without authority (preview)
- Section 86 – Indexes (preview)
- Section 87 – Documents open to public inspection (preview)
- Section 88 – Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament (preview)
- Section 89 – Fees and surcharge (preview)
- Section 90 – Savings in respect of Chapter IX (preview)
- Section 91 – Declaration as to ownership of layout-design not registerable under the Registration Act, 1908 (preview)
- Section 92 – Government to be bound (preview)
- Section 93 – Convention countries (preview)
- Section 94 – Provision as to reciprocity (preview)
- Section 95 – Power of Central Government to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 96 – Power to make rules (preview)