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