Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part I · Preliminary
3. Application
Feedback & supportThis Act shall apply to a layout-design, whether created before or after the commencement of this Act, but an action under this Act shall not lie in respect of any act done before that commencement in relation to the layout-design, a copy of the layout-design or an integrated circuit in which the layout-design is incorporated.
layout-design
“layout-design” means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements of an integrated circuit and some or all of the interconnections of the integrated circuit or such a three-dimensional disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
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Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect any action taken under any other written law relating to the protection of intellectual property rights that is pending on the commencement of this Act and such action shall be continued under the applicable written law until its final disposal.
action
“action” means a civil proceeding commenced by writ or in such other manner as may be prescribed by rules of court and includes a counterclaim;
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as reviving any protection for a layout design that had expired before the commencement of this Act.
This Act shall not apply in relation to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a layout-design.