law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  62.
  
     Procedure
  
  where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused.
  1.   Where the offence
  
  charged under section 56 is in relation to a registered layout design and the
  
  accused pleads that the registration of the layout-design is invalid, the
  
  following procedure shall be followed:-
  a.  
  
    if
  
  the court is satisfied that such defence is prima facie tenable, it
  
  shall not proceed with the charge but shall adjourn the proceeding for three
  
  months from the date on which the plea of accused is recorded to enable the
  
  accused to file an application before the Appellate Board under this Act, for
  
  the rectification of the register on the ground that the registration is
  
  invalid;
  b.  
  
    if
  
  the accused proves to the court that he has made such application within the
  
  time so limited or within such further time as the time court may for
  
  sufficient cause may allow, the further proceedings in the prosecution shall
  
  stand stayed till the disposal of such application for rectification;
  c.  
  
    if
  
  within a period of three months or within such extended time as may be allowed
  
  by the court the accused fails to apply to the Appellate Board for
  
  rectification of the register, the court shall proceed with the case as if the
  
  registration were valid.
  2.   Where before the
  
  institution of a complaint of an offence referred to in sub-section (1) ,
  
  any application for the rectification of the register concerning the
  
  layout-design in question on the ground of invalidity of the registration
  
  thereof has already been properly made to and is pending before the Appellate
  
  Board or the Registrar, the Court shall stay the further proceedings in the
  
  prosecution pending the disposal of the application aforesaid and shall
  
  determine the charge against the accused in conformity with the result of the
  
  application for rectification in so far as the complainant relies upon the
  
  registration of his layout-design.