My bookmarksSign up free
← Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000

Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 s 3

Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 s 3

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy — section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 3 Application

(1) This 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. (2) 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. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as reviving any protection for a layout design that had expired before the commencement of this Act. (4) 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.

Malay text (authoritative)

(1) Akta ini hendaklah terpakai bagi reka bentuk susun atur, sama ada dicipta sebelum atau selepas Akta ini mula berkuat kuasa, tetapi sesuatu tindakan di bawah Akta ini tidak boleh diambil berkenaan dengan apa-apa perbuatan yang dilakukan sebelum permulaan kuat kuasa itu berhubung dengan reka bentuk susun atur itu, salinan reka bentuk susun atur itu atau litar bersepadu yang dalamnya digabungkan reka bentuk susun atur itu. (2) Tiada apa-apa jua dalam Akta ini boleh disifatkan menjejaskan apa-apa tindakan yang diambil di bawah mana-mana undang-undang bertulis lain berhubung dengan perlindungan hak harta intelektual yang belum selesai apabila Akta ini mula berkuat kuasa dan tindakan itu hendaklah diteruskan di bawah undangundang bertulis yang terpakai sehingga tindakan itu dibereskan dengan muktamad. (3) Tiada apa-apa jua dalam Akta ini boleh ditafsirkan sebagai menghidupkan semula apa-apa perlindungan bagi sesuatu reka bentuk susun atur yang telah habis tempoh sebelum Akta ini mula berkuat kuasa. (4) Akta ini tidak terpakai berhubung dengan apa-apa gagasan, tatacara, proses, sistem, kaedah pengendalian, konsep, prinsip atau penemuan, tidak kira bentuk gagasan, tatacara, proses, sistem, kaedah pengendalian, konsep, prinsip atau penemuan itu diperihalkan, dijelaskan, digambarkan atau dikandungkan dalam sesuatu reka bentuk susun atur.

Read this section in the full act → · Open Part I →

Find Act 601 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

What to look at next