law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  29.
  
     Registered
  
  user not to have right of assignment or transmission.
  Nothing
  
  in this Act shall confer on a registered user of a layout-design any assignable
  
  or transmissible right to the use thereof.
  Explanation
  
  I  - The
  
  right of a registered user of a layout-design shall not deem to have been
  
  assigned or transmitted within the meaning of this section in the following
  
  cases, namely:-
  a.   where the registered
  
  user being an individual enters into a partnership with any other person for
  
  carrying on the business concerned; but in any such case the firm may use the
  
  layout-design, if otherwise in force, only for so long as the registered user
  
  is a member of the firm;
  b.   where the registered
  
  user being a firm subsequently undergoes a change in its constitution; but in
  
  any such case the reconstituted firm may use the layout-design, if otherwise in
  
  force, only for so long as any partner of the original firm at the time of its
  
  registration as registered user, continues to be a partner of the reconstituted
  
  firm.
  Explanation
  
  II  - For
  
  the purposes of Explanation I, ''firm'' has the same meaning as in the Indian
  
  Partnership Act, 1932.