law: 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.