of the world. Moreover, said application may under no circumstances be filed 15 years after the final or intermediate topography of the integrated circuit has been fixed or coded for the first time, if it has never been worked. 98. Any request for a certificate of layout design (topography) for integrated circuits which does not meet the provisions of Article 96 above and Section I of Chapter II of Title II of this Law shall be rejected. 99. The following shall be considered unlawful if performed without the authorization of the holders of the right in a layout design (topography) for integrated circuits: (a) the act of reproducing, whether by incorporation in an integrated circuit or otherwise, a protected layout design (topography) in its entirety or any part thereof, except the act of reproducing any part that does not comply with the requirement of originality referred to in Article 91 above; (b) the act of importing, selling or otherwise distributing for commercial purposes a protected layout design (topography) or an integrated circuit in which a protected layout design is incorporated, or an article incorporating such an integrated circuit, only insofar as this article continues to contain an unlawfully reproduced layout design. 100. The following acts shall not be considered unlawful: (a) the acts referred to in Article 99(a) above, performed for private purposes or for the sole purpose of evaluation, analysis, research or teaching; (b) the creation, on the basis of such evaluation, analysis or research, of a separate topography which can qualify for protection in accordance with the provisions of this Law; (c) any of the acts referred to in Article 99 above in respect of an integrated circuit incorporating an unlawfully reproduced layout design (topography), or of any article incorporating such an integrated circuit, where the person performing or ordering such acts did not know and had no reasonable ground to know, when acquiring said integrated circuit or article incorporating such an integrated circuit, that it incorporated an unlawfully reproduced layout design. After the time that such person has received sufficient notice that the layout design has been unlawfully reproduced, that person may perform any of the acts referred to in respect of the stocks on hand or ordered before such time, but shall be liable to pay the right holder a sum equivalent to a reasonable royalty as would be payable under a freely negotiated license in respect of such a layout design. 101. Where no application for a certificate has been filed for a layout design (topography) for integrated circuits within a period of 15 years starting from the date of its creation, no exclusive right shall come into being. 102. Certificates of layout designs (topographies) for integrated circuit which are not original as defined in Article 91 above and which do not meet the conditions provided for in Article 97 above may be declared invalid by the courts at the request of any interested person. 103. Any interested person may obtain an excerpt from the register recording the entries made to a register known as the “National Register of Certificates of Layout Designs (Topographies) for Integrated Circuits” kept by the entity responsible for industrial property.