Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits [No. 6 of 2016 319 (3) The Registrar shall issue notice in the prescribed manner of the registration of a person as a registered user to other registered users of the layout-design, if any. (4) The Registrar shall, if so requested by the applicant, take steps to secure the information given for the purposes of an application under this section from being disclosed to rivals in trade, other than matters entered in the register. 44. (1) An exclusive assignee or licensee has the same rights against a successor in title to the qualified owner as against the assignor or licensor. Rights of exclusive assignee or licensee (2) An exclusive assignee or licensee has, except against the qualified owner, the same rights and remedies in respect of matters occurring after the transmission effected in accordance with section forty. (3) An exclusive assignee’s or licensee’s rights and remedies are concurrent with those of the qualified owner. (4) In any proceedings brought by an exclusive assignee or licensee, a defendant may avail any defence that would have been available if the proceedings had been brought by the qualified owner. (5) Nothing in this Act shall confer on a registered user or licensee of a layout-design any assignable or transmissible right to the use thereof, except in the following circumstances: (a) where the registered user being an individual enters into a partnership with any other person for carrying on the business concerned; but in any such case the firm may use the layout-design, if otherwise in force, only for so long as the registered user is a member of the firm; or (b) where the registered user being a firm subsequently undergoes a change in its constitution; but in any such case the reconstituted firm may use the layout-design, if otherwise in force, only for so long as any partner of the original firm at the time of its registration as registered user, continues to be a partner of the reconstituted firm. 45. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section forty- Cancellation of Registered three, the registration of a person as registered user— User (a) may be cancelled by the Registrar on application in writing in the prescribed manner of the qualified owner or of the registered user or of any other registered user of the layout-design;