law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  78.  Preliminary advice by
  
  the Registrar.
  1.   The Registrar may, on
  
  application made to him in the prescribed manner by any person who proposes to
  
  apply for the registration of a layout-design, give advice as to whether the
  
  layout-design appears to him prima facie to be original.
  2.   If, on an application
  
  for the registration of a layout-design as to which the Registrar has given
  
  advice as aforesaid in the affirmative made within three months after the
  
  advice was given, the Registrar, after further investigation or consideration,
  
  gives notice, to the applicant of objection on the ground that the
  
  layout-design is not original, the applicant shall be entitled, on giving
  
  notice of withdrawal of the application within the prescribed period, to have
  
  repaid to him any fee paid on the filing of the application.