law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
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     Definitions
  In
  
  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  a.   "Appellate Board"
  
  means the Appellate Board established under section 32;
  b.   "assignment" means an
  
  assignment in writing by act of the parties concerned;
  c.   "Bench" means a Bench
  
  of the Appellate Board;
  d.   "Chairperson" means
  
  the Chairperson of the Appellate Board;
  e.   "commercial
  
  exploitation", in relation to Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design,
  
  means to sell, lease, offer or exhibit for sale or otherwise distribute such
  
  semiconductor integrated circuit for any commercial purpose;
  f.   "convention country"
  
  means a country notified as such under section 93;
  g.   "Judicial Member"
  
  means a Member of the Appellate Board appointed as such under this Act, and
  
  includes the Chairperson or such Vice-Chairperson who possesses any of the
  
  qualifications specified in sub-section (3) of section 34;
  h.   "layout-design" means
  
  a layout of transistors and other circuitry elements and includes lead wires
  
  connecting such elements and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor
  
  integrated circuit;
  i.   "Member" means a
  
  Judicial Member or a Technical Member of the Appellate Board and includes the
  
  Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson;
  j.   "notify" means to
  
  notify in the Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Journal published by the Registrar;
  k.   "prescribed" means
  
  prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  l.   "register" means the
  
  Register of Layout-Designs referred to in section 6;
  m.   "registered" (with
  
  its grammatical variations) means registered under this Act;
  n.   "registered
  
  layout-design" means a layout-design which is actually on the register;
  o.   "registered
  
  proprietor", in relation to a layout-design, means the person for the time
  
  being entered in the register as proprietor of the layout-design;
  p.   "registered user"
  
  means a person who is for the time being registered as such under section 25;
  q.   "Registrar" means the
  
  Registrar of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design referred to in
  
  section 3;
  r.   "semiconductor
  
  integrated circuit" means a product having transistors and other circuitry
  
  elements which are inseparably formed on a semiconductor material or an
  
  insulating material or inside the semiconductor material and designed to
  
  perform an electronic circuitry function;