law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  11.
  
     Opposition
  
  to registration.
  1.   Any person may,
  
  within three months from the date of the advertisement or readvertisement of an
  
  application for registration or within such further period, not exceeding one
  
  month in the aggregate, as the Registrar, on application made to him in the
  
  prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, allows, give notice in
  
  writing in the prescribed manner to the Registrar of opposition to the
  
  registration.
  2.   The Registrar shall
  
  serve a copy of the not ice on the applicant for registration and, within two
  
  months from the receipt by the applicant of such copy of the notice of
  
  opposition, the applicant shall send to the Registrar in the prescribed manner
  
  a counter-statement of the grounds on which he relies for his application and
  
  if he does not do so, he shall be deemed to have abandoned his application.
  3.   If the applicant
  
  sends such counter-statement, the Registrar shall serve a copy thereof on the
  
  person giving notice of opposition.
  4.   Any evidence upon
  
  which the opponent and the applicant may rely shall be submitted in the
  
  prescribed manner and within the prescribed time to the Registrar, the Registrar
  
  shall give an opportunity to them to be heard, if they so desire.
  5.   The Registrar shall,
  
  after hearing the parties, if so required, and considering the evidence,
  
  decide, after taking into account any ground of objection whether relied upon
  
  by the opponent or not.
  6.   When a person giving
  
  notice of opposition or an applicant sending a counterstatement after receipt
  
  of a copy of such notice neither resides nor carries on business in India, the
  
  Registrar may require him to give security for the costs of proceedings before
  
  him and, in default of such security being duly given, may treat the opposition
  
  or application, as the case may be, as abandoned.