b) If two or more persons have made the same invention independently of each other, the person whose application has the earliest filing date or, if priority is claimed, the earliest priority date shall have the right to the layout-design, provided such application is not withdrawn, abandoned or rejected. To this effect, the Director General of the Liberia Intellectual Property Office shall take into account the matter claimed in the respective application. c) The right to a layout design may be assigned, and may be transferred by succession. d) Where an invention is made under an employment contract the purpose of which is to invent, the right to the layout design shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the employer. If the economic gains obtained by the employer from the commercial exploitation of that invention rise above the reasonable expectations of gain that the employer had from his employee‟s inventive output at the time he hired him, the employee shall be entitled to an equitable remuneration. e) Where an invention is made by an employee outside an employment contract, but in making that invention the employee used materials, data or know-how of the employer, the right to the layout design shall belong, in the absence of contractual provisions to the contrary, to the employer. The employee shall be entitled to an equitable remuneration equivalent to one third of the economic gains obtained by the employer from the commercial exploitation of the invention. f) Any invention claimed in a layout design application filed by a former employee within one year following the expiry of his employment, where the invention falls within the scope of the former employer‟s main line of business, shall be presumed to have been made during the employment relationship, unless the employee produces evidence to the contrary. g) Any anticipated promise or undertaking by the inventor made to his employer to the effect that he will waive any remuneration he is entitled to under this section shall be without legal effect. h) The inventor shall be named as such in the layout design, unless he indicates to the Director General in writing that he wishes not to be named. Any promise or undertaking by the inventor made to the effect that he will make such a declaration shall be without legal effect. i) If two or more persons have jointly made an invention, the right to the layout-design invention shall belong to them jointly. §14.4. Effect of Protection a) The registration of a layout-design shall have the effect that the following acts shall be unlawful if performed without the authorization of the registered right holder: i. reproducing, whether by incorporation in an integrated circuit or otherwise, the protected layout-design 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 Section 14.2. 82