Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
94.
Provision
as to reciprocity.
Where
any country specified by the Central Government in this behalf by notification
in the Official Gazette under section 93 does not accord to citizens of India
the same rights in respect of registration and protection of layout-design as
it accords to its own nationals, no national of such country shall be entitled,
either solely or jointly with any other person,-
a. to apply for the
registration of, or be registered as the proprietor of, a layoutdesign;
b. to be registered as
the assignee of the proprietor of a registered layout-design; or
c. to apply for
registration or be registered as a registered user of a layout-design under
section 25.