Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits [No. 6 of 2016 305 “register” means the register of layout-designs and integrated circuits registered and maintained in accordance with section twelve; “registered layout-design” means a layout-design registered in accordance with this Act or any other law before the commencement of this Act; “Registrar” means the person appointed as Registrar under the Patents and Companies Registration Agency Act, 2010; “reproduction” means the act or process of copying a layoutdesign in material form, whether directly or indirectly; Act No. 15 of 2010 “World Trade Organisation” means the World Trade Organisation established by the Marrakesh Agreement done at Marrakesh on 15th April, 1994; and “writing” includes an electronic message if the information contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference. (2) In this Act a reference to— (a) doing an act to a layout-design includes doing that act to a substantial part of the layout-design; and (b) a copy of a layout-design includes a copy of a substantial part of the layout-design. 3. (1) This Act shall apply to registered layout-designs and topographies of integrated circuits. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an action relating to a layout-design, a copy of the layout-design or an integrated circuit, registered under any other law, before the commencement of this Act, shall be dealt with in accordance with the law that applied before the commencement of this Act. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be considered to affect any action taken under any other written law relating to the protection of intellectual property rights that is pending on the commencement of this Act and such action shall be continued and determined in accordance with the applicable written law. (4) Despite subsection (1), this Act shall not apply to any idea, process or system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a layout-design. Application