---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 U.S.C. § 1329"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
number: "1329"
heading: "Relation to design patent law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/1329"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs"
---

# §1329. Relation to design patent law


The issuance of a design patent under [title 35](/usc/35.md), United States Code, for an original design for an article of manufacture shall terminate any protection of the original design under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, § 502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2916.)