Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Layout-Design Rights and Infringement Action
9. Infringement
Feedback & supportSubject to the provisions of this Act, it is an infringement of a qualified owner’s right in a protected layout‑design for any person to do any of the acts referred to in section 8 without the consent of the qualified owner.
qualified owner
“qualified owner” means —(a)a qualified person who, under section 6(1), is the owner of a layout‑design; or(b)a person who, under section 6(1), is the owner of a layout‑design which was not commercially exploited anywhere else in the world before it was commercially exploited in Singapore or in a qualifying country,and includes a person, whether or not a qualified person, who is a successor in title to a qualified owner of the layout‑design;