Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
14.
Jointly
owned layout-design.
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.