Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
Preamble
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:-