provided that the parts submitted are sufficient to identify the layout
design and its function.
The Patent Office shall maintain a register in which it shall record
all applications according to the rules and procedure prescribed by
the Regulations. Each application shall be subject to the payment of
fees, as determined in the Regulations, not exceeding 1,000 pounds.
The application shall not be accepted if it is filed after two years
from the date of its first commercial exploitation, within or outside
Egypt, by the owner of the right.
Article 50
No natural person or legal entity shall perform any of the following
acts without a prior written authorization by the owner of the right
to a protected layout design:
(1) Reproducing, whether by incorporation in an integrated circuit or
otherwise, the whole or any part of the protected layout design.
(2) Importation, sale or distribution of the layout design for the
purpose of trade, whether separately, as part of an integrated circuit
or as a component of a product.
Article 51
Without prejudice to the protection provisions prescribed in this
Chapter, a natural person or a legal entity may, without the
authorization of the right owner, undertake one or more of the following
acts:
(1) Reproduction or commercial exploitation, which includes importing,
selling or distributing, of an integrated circuit that includes a
protected layout design or a product in which such an integrated circuit
is used, if such an act is done by a person who did not know, or was
not in a position to know, at the time of the act that such an integrated
circuit or product incorporate a protected layout design.
In such a case, the acquirer may, against payment of a fair compensation
to the right owner, dispose of any stock or amounts ordered, upon his
notification by the right owner, by a registered letter with
acknowledgement of receipt, that the integrated circuit or the product
in his possession contains a protected layout design.
(2) Personal use or for the purpose of test, examination, analysis,
teaching, training or scientific research of the protected layout
design. Where such use leads to the creation of a new layout design,
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