Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits [No. 6 of 2016 303 “exclusive licensee”, “exclusive assignee” and “exclusive assignment” shall be construed accordingly, with the necessary modifications; “integrated circuit” means a product, in its final form 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 and on a piece of material and which is intended to perform an electronic function; “layout-design” means a functional design which consists of the pattern, shape or configuration of the three-dimensional disposition of the electrical, electromagnetic or optical elements and circuitry of an integrated circuit, and “integrated circuit” and “topography” shall be construed accordingly; “material form” means any form of storage, whether visible or not, from which a layout-design, or a substantial part of the layout-design, can be reproduced; “officer” means an employee or agent of the Agency; “original” in relation to a layout-design, means the result of a creator ’s own intellectual effort or which is not commonplace, at the time it was made, among creators of layout-designs and manufacturers of integrated circuits; “prospective qualified owner” means, with respect to future layout-design rights that are— (a) not the subject of an agreement of the kind referred to in subsection (1) of section thirtyseven, the person who will be the qualified owner of those rights when they come into existence; or (b) the subject of an agreement of the kind referred to in subsection (1) of section thirty-seven, the person in whom those rights shall vest under that subsection when they come into existence; “protected layout-design” means a layout-design or topography in respect of which the conditions of protection specified in this Act are fulfilled; “public non-commercial purpose” means an act which is done— (a) for the defence or national security of Zambia; or

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