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Article 91
The protection granted to a layout design (topography) for integrated circuits shall
only apply to the layout design (topography) for integrated circuits as such, to the
exclusion of any concept, process, system, technique or coded information
incorporated in this layout design.
Chapter II
Miscellaneous provisions
Article 92
The provisions of Chapters II and III of Title II of this Law shall apply to layout
designs (topographies) for integrated circuits, subject to the special provisions below.
Article 93
Any layout design (topography) for integrated circuits may give rise to an industrial
property title known as a “certificate of layout design (topography) for integrated
circuits”.
Layout designs (topographies) for integrated circuits shall be protected for a period of
ten years from the date on which the corresponding application is filed or from the
first commercialization of said design in any part of the world, whichever date came
first.
Article 94
The right to the title shall belong to the creator or his successors in title, subject to the
provisions of Article 18 above.
The provisions of Articles 19 and 20 above shall apply to layout designs
(topographies) for integrated circuits.
Article 95
A request for a certificate for a layout design (topography) for integrated circuits must
be accompanied, when filed, by a copy or a drawing of the layout design
(topography) for integrated circuits and, where the integrated circuit has been used
commercially, by a sample of the integrated circuit, as well as information defining
the electronic function which the integrated circuit is intended to perform.
The request shall specify the date of the first commercialization of said design in any
part of the world, or shall state that the commercialization has not begun.
Article 96
Unless the layout design is common, an application covered by Article 95 above may
not be filed two years after the first commercialization of said design in any part of the
world. Moreover, said application may under no circumstances be filed 15 years after