Layout Design Order, 1999 · As enacted
Section 5
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
For the purpose of this Order but without limiting the ordinary meaning of the word "make" in relation to an eligible layout design, a person who used a computer to make an eligible layout design is deemed to have made the design.
eligible layout design
"eligible layout design" means an original layout design - (a} the maker or, in relation to a jointly-made layout design, any one or more of the makers, of which was, at the time that layout design was made, an eligible person; or {b) that was first commercially exploited in Brunei Darussalam or in a qualifying country;
A layout design shall be deemed not to have been made until it has been recorded in documentary form or incorporated into an integrated circuit, whichever is earlier.
layout design
"layout design" means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and of some or all of the interconnections, of an integrated circuit; and includes such a three-dimensional Meaning of "commercially exploited". disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
Terms defined in s 2
eligible layout design
Defined · s 2"eligible layout design" means an original layout design - (a} the maker or, in relation to a jointly-made layout design, any one or more of the makers, of which was, at the time that layout design was made, an eligible person; or {b) that was first commercially exploited in Brunei Darussalam or in a qualifying country;
integrated circuit
Defined · s 2"integrated circuit" means a circuit, in its fmal or an intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in or on a piece of material and that is intended to perform an electronic function;
layout design
Defined · s 2"layout design" means the three-dimensional disposition, however expressed, of the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and of some or all of the interconnections, of an integrated circuit; and includes such a three-dimensional Meaning of "commercially exploited". disposition prepared for an integrated circuit intended for manufacture;
Part II
Ownership and Nature of Layout Design Rights
Part III
Part IV