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Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000 Section 19

Title: Registration to Be Prima Facie Evidence of Validity

State: Central

Year: 2000

(1) In all legal proceedings relating to a layout-design registered under this Act (including application under section 30), the original registration of the layout-design and all subsequent assignments and transmissions of layout-design shall be prima facie evidence of the validity thereof. (2) In all legal proceedings as aforesaid, a registered layout-design shall not be held to be invalid on the ground that it was not a registerable layout-design under section 7 except upon evidence of originality and that such evidence was not submitted to the Registrar before registration.

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layoutdesign Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS LAYOUT-DESIGN ACT, 2000 SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS LAYOUT-DESIGN ACT, 2000 37 of 2000 September 4, 2000 An Act to provide for the protection of semiconductor integrated circuits layout-designs and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto Whereas the Final Act embodying the results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations done at Marrakesh on the 15th day of April, 1994 provides for establishment of the World Trade Organisation; And whereas the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights is part of the said Final Act; And whereas the Government of India, having ratified the said Final Act, should, inter alia, make provisions for giving effect to Section 6 in Part II of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights relating to Layout-Design (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits : Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER 01 PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000. (2) It extends to.....

Designs Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 2000 (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS -In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "article" means any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial, or partly artificial and partly natural; and includes any part of an article capable of being made and sold separately; (b) "Controller" means the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to inSec.3-; (c) "copyright" means the exclusive right to apply a design to any article in any class in which the design is registered; (d) "design" means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament or composition.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Amending Act 1

Title: Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act. 2. Substitution of new section for section 6 For section 6 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely:-- '6. "Cheque".-- A "cheque" is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise than on demand and it includes the electronic image of a truncated cheque and a cheque in the electronic form. Explanation 1.--For the purposes of this section, the expressions-- (a) "a cheque in the electronic form" means a cheque which contains the exact mirror image of a paper cheque, and is generated, written and signed in a secure system ensuring the minimum safety standards with the use of digital signature (with or without biometrics signature) and asymmetric crypto system; (b) "a truncated cheque" means a cheque which is truncated during the course of a clearing cycle, either by the clearing house or by the bank whether paying or receiving payment, immediately on generation of an electronic image for transmission,.....

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000 Chapter IV

Title: Effect of Registration

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....layout-design in its entirety or any part thereof, except such act of reproducing any part thereof which is not original within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section 7; (b) subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), does any act of importing or selling or otherwise distributing for commercial purposes a registered layout-design or a semiconductor integrated circuit incorporating such registered layout-design or an article incorporating such a semiconductor integrated circuit containing such registered layout-design for the use of which such person is not entitled under this Act. Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity.-- (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 17, sub-section (1) or sub-section (5), the performance of the act of reproduction referred to in clause (a) of sub-section (1), where such act is performed for the limited purposes of scientific evaluation, analysis, research or teaching, shall not constitute act of infringement within the meaning of that clause. (3) Where a person, on the basis of scientific evaluation or analysis of a registered layout-design, creates another layout-design which is original within the meaning of.....

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000 Chapter X

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....or sending them by post to the address for service of the applicant or opponent, as the case may be. Section 84 - Agents Where, by or under this Act, any act, other than the making of an affidavit, is required to be done before the Registrar by any person, the act may, subject to the rules made in this behalf, be done, instead of by that person himself, by a person duly authorised in the prescribed manner, who is-- (a) a legal practitioner, or (b) a person registered in the prescribed manner as a layout-design agent, or (c) a person in the sole and regular employment of the principal. Section 85 - Layout-design registered by an agent or representative without authority If an agent or a representative of the proprietor of a registered layout-design, without authority uses or attempts to register or registers the layout-design in his own name, the proprietor shall be entitled to oppose the registration applied for or secure its cancellation or rectification of the register so as to bring him as the registered proprietor of the said layout-design by assignment in his favour: Provided that such action shall be taken within three years of the registered proprietor of.....

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000 Chapter IX

Title: Offences,penalties and Procedure

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....registration as a layout-design under the law of a country outside India being a country under the law of which the registration referred to is in fact in force; or (b) where that other expression is of itself such as to indicate that the reference is to such registration as is mentioned in clause (a); or (c) where that word is used in relation to a layout-design registered as a layout-design under the law of a country outside India and in relation solely to such layout-design. Section 58 - Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry If any person uses on his place of business, or on any document issued by him, or otherwise, words which would reasonably lead to the belief that his place of business is, or is officially connected with, the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. Section 59 - Penalty for falsification of entries in the register If any person makes, or causes to be made, a false entry in the register, or a writing falsely purporting to.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....record is retained intact or has been altered since such electronic record was so affixed with the digital signature. (2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law or the relevant provision of the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. SECTION 03: AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS (1) Subject to the provisions of this section any subscriber may authenticate an electronic record by affixing his digital signature. (2) The authentication of the electronic record shall be effected by the use of asymmetric crypto system and hash function which envelop and transform the initial electronic record into another electronic record. Explanation."For the purposes of this sub-section, "hash function" means an algorithm mapping or translation of one sequence of bits into another, generally smaller, set known as "hash result" such that an electronic record yields the same hash result every time the algorithm is executed with the same electronic record as its input making it computationally infeasible" (a).....

Finance Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Finance Act, 2000. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, Sections 2 to 77 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2000. SECTION 02: INCOME TAX (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2000, income-tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule and such tax as reduced by the rebate of income-tax calculated under Chapter VIII-A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the Income Tax Act) shall be increased,- (a) in the cases to which Paragraphs A, B, C and D of that Part apply, by a surcharge for purposes of the Union; and (b) in the cases to which Paragraph E of that Part applies, by a surcharge, calculated in each case in the manner manner provided therein. (2) In the cases to which Paragraph A of Part I of the First Schedule applies, where the assessee has, in the previous year, any net agricultural income exceeding six hundred rupees, in.....

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000 Complete Act

Title: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-design Act, 2000

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....- Correction and amendment Section13 - Registration Section14 - Jointly owned layout-design Section15 - Duration of registration Chapter IV Section16 - No action of infringement of unregistered layout-design Section17 - Rights conferred by registration Section18 - Infringement of layout-design Section19 - Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity Chapter V Section20 - Power of Registered Proprietor to assign and give receipts Section21 - Assignability and transmissibility of registered layout-design Section22 - Conditions for assignment otherwise than in connection with the goodwill of a business Section23 - Registration of assignments and transmissions Chapter VI Section24 - Registered users Section25 - Registration as registered user Section26 - Power of Registrar for cancellation of registration as registered user Section27 - Power of Registrar to call for information relating to agreement in respect of registered users Section28 - Right of registered user to take proceedings against infringement Section29 - Registered user not to have right of assignment or transmission Chapter VII Section30 - Power to rectify the register Section31 -.....