# The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000, Section 14: Jointly owned layout-design

- Act: The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (Act 37 of 2000)
- In force from: 2004-05-01
- Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/semiconductor-integrated-circuits-layout-design-act-2000/section/14/

## Text

(1) Save as provided in sub-section (2), nothing in this Act shall authorise the registration of two or more persons who claim to be the creator of a layout-design. (2) Where the relation between two or more persons claiming to be the creator of layout-design are such that-- (a) both of them or all of them have put the combined intellectual effort in creating such design; or (b) in relation to the creation of such layout-design both of them or all of them are connected in such manner that intellectual effort of each of them are not distinguishable in creation of such layout design, those persons may be registered as joint proprietor of the layout-design and this Act shall have effect in relation to any right to the use of the layout-design vested in those persons as if in those rights vested in a single person.

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