law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  57.
  
     Penalty
  
  for falsely representing a layout-design as registered.
  1.   No person shall make
  
  any representation with respect to a layout-design not being a registered
  
  layout-design, to the effect that it is a registered layout-design.
  2.   If any person
  
  contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) , he shall be punishable
  
  with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which
  
  may extend to fifty thousand rupees, or with both.
  3.   For the purposes of
  
  this section, the use in India in relation to a layout-design of the word
  
  ''registered'', or of any other expression referring whether expressly or
  
  impliedly to registration, shall be deemed to import a reference to
  
  registration in the register, except-
  a.  
  
    where
  
  that word or other expression, is used in direct association with other words
  
  delineated in characters at least as large as those in which that word or other
  
  expression is delineated and indicating that the reference is to registration
  
  as a layout design under the law of a country outside India being a country
  
  under the law of which the registration referred to is in fact in force; or
  b.  
  
    where
  
  that other expression is of itself such as to indicate that the reference is to
  
  such registration as is mentioned in clause (a) ; or (c) where
  
  that word is used in relation to a layout-design registered as a layout design
  
  under the law of a country outside India and in relation solely to such layout
  
  design.