---
kind: "unit"
title: "17"
title_heading: "Copyrights"
key: "ch13"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 13"
heading: "Protection of Original Designs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/17/ch13"
sections_count: 32
---

# Chapter 13 — Protection of Original Designs

Title 17 — Copyrights

## Sections

- [§1301. Designs protected](/usc/17/1301.md)
- [§1302. Designs not subject to protection](/usc/17/1302.md)
- [§1303. Revisions, adaptations, and rearrangements](/usc/17/1303.md)
- [§1304. Commencement of protection](/usc/17/1304.md)
- [§1305. Term of protection](/usc/17/1305.md)
- [§1306. Design notice](/usc/17/1306.md)
- [§1307. Effect of omission of notice](/usc/17/1307.md)
- [§1308. Exclusive rights](/usc/17/1308.md)
- [§1309. Infringement](/usc/17/1309.md)
- [§1310. Application for registration](/usc/17/1310.md)
- [§1311. Benefit of earlier filing date in foreign country](/usc/17/1311.md)
- [§1312. Oaths and acknowledgments](/usc/17/1312.md)
- [§1313. Examination of application and issue or refusal of registration](/usc/17/1313.md)
- [§1314. Certification of registration](/usc/17/1314.md)
- [§1315. Publication of announcements and indexes](/usc/17/1315.md)
- [§1316. Fees](/usc/17/1316.md)
- [§1317. Regulations](/usc/17/1317.md)
- [§1318. Copies of records](/usc/17/1318.md)
- [§1319. Correction of errors in certificates](/usc/17/1319.md)
- [§1320. Ownership and transfer](/usc/17/1320.md)
- [§1321. Remedy for infringement](/usc/17/1321.md)
- [§1322. Injunctions](/usc/17/1322.md)
- [§1323. Recovery for infringement](/usc/17/1323.md)
- [§1324. Power of court over registration](/usc/17/1324.md)
- [§1325. Liability for action on registration fraudulently obtained](/usc/17/1325.md)
- [§1326. Penalty for false marking](/usc/17/1326.md)
- [§1327. Penalty for false representation](/usc/17/1327.md)
- [§1328. Enforcement by Treasury and Postal Service](/usc/17/1328.md)
- [§1329. Relation to design patent law](/usc/17/1329.md)
- [§1330. Common law and other rights unaffected](/usc/17/1330.md)
- [§1331. Administrator; Office of the Administrator](/usc/17/1331.md)
- [§1332. No retroactive effect](/usc/17/1332.md)