The final or intermediate topography of a semiconductor product reflecting an intellectual effort by the creator may, unless it is commonplace, be the subject of a deposit conferring the protection provided for in this chapter.
Such a deposit may not be made more than two years after the topography has first been commercially exploited anywhere or more than fifteen years after it has been fixed or encoded for the first time if it has never been exploited.
Any deposit which does not meet the conditions laid down in this Article shall be invalid.