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Interpretation
Act No. 15
of 2010
2.
Layout-designs of Integrated
Circuits
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Agency” means the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency established under the Patents and Companies
Registration Agency Act, 2010;
“appropriate institution” means any Ministry having
responsibility for, or such public or statutory officer or body
having powers under any other law over, the regulation,
collection, use, compilation or dissemination of information
in relation to layout-designs or topographies of integrated
circuits;
Act No. 15
of 2010
“Board” means the Board of the Agency constituted in
accordance with the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency Act, 2010;
“commercially exploit” in relation to a layout-design, a copy
of the layout-design or an integrated circuit in which the
layout-design is incorporated, whether or not the integrated
circuit is contained in another article, means to—
(a) sell, let for hire or otherwise distribute by way of
trade;
(b) offer or expose for sale or hire or other distribution
by way of trade; or
(c) import for the purpose of sale, letting for hire or
other distribution by way of trade; and
“commercially exploited”, “commercially exploiting” and
“commercial exploitation” shall be construed accordingly;
“compulsory licence” means a licence granted by the Registrar
in accordance with, and for the purposes stated in, section
thirty-nine;
“creator” means a person who came up with the layout-design
for an integrated circuit a computer;
“examiner” means an officer who determines whether or not
a layout-design should be registered in accordance with
section fifteen;
“exclusive licence” means a licence, in writing, signed by or
on behalf of a qualified owner authorising the licensee, to
the exclusion of all other persons, including the person
granting the licence, to exercise a right that would otherwise
be exercisable exclusively by the qualified owner, and