---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1308"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1308"
heading: "Exclusive rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1308"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1308. Exclusive rights


The owner of a design protected under this chapter has the exclusive right to—

- (1) make, have made, or import, for sale or for use in trade, any useful article embodying that design; and
- (2) sell or distribute for sale or for use in trade any useful article embodying that design.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2908.)