ii. importing, selling or otherwise distributing for commercial purposes the protected layoutdesign, an integrated circuit in which the protected layout-design is incorporated or an article incorporating such an integrated circuit in so far as it continues to contain an unlawfully reproduced layout-design. b) The rights conferred by the registration of a layout-design shall not extend to: i. the reproduction or use of the protected layout-design for private non-commercial purposes; ii. the reproduction or use of the protected layout-design for the sole purpose of academic or scientific research or teaching; iii. the reproduction or use of the protected layout-design for the sole purpose of evaluation or analysis of the layout-design; iv. the incorporation in an integrated circuit of a layout-design created on the basis of such evaluation or analysis and which is itself original in the meaning of Section 14.2 or the performance of any of the acts referred to in subsection (a) in respect of a layout-design so created; v. the performance of any of the acts referred to in subsection (a) (ii) where the integrated circuit in which such a layout-design is incorporated, or the article incorporating such an integrated circuit, has been put on the market in Liberia or abroad by the right holder or by a person acting with the right holder‟s consent or having an economic tie to the right holder; to this effect an economic tie shall exist between two persons where one of them may exercise on the other a decisive influence with respect to the exploitation of the layoutdesign, or where a third party may exercise such an influence on both persons; vi. the performance of any of the acts referred to in subsection (a) (ii) in respect of an integrated circuit incorporating an unlawfully reproduced layout-design or any article incorporating such an integrated circuit where the person performing or ordering such an act did not know and had no reasonable ground to know, when acquiring the integrated circuit or the article incorporating such an integrated circuit, that it incorporated an unlawfully reproduced layout-design; however, after the time that such person has received sufficient notice that the layout-design was unlawfully reproduced, that person may perform any of the said acts only with respect to the stock on hand or ordered before such time and shall be liable to pay to the right holder a sum equivalent to a reasonable royalty such as would be payable under a freely negotiated license in respect of such a layoutdesign; vii. the performance of any of the acts referred to in subsection (a) (ii) where the act is performed in respect of an identical layout-design which is original and has been created independently by a third party; 83