35 U.S.C. 171 — Patents for designs
Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024
- (a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever invents any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
- (b) APPLICABILITY OF THIS TITLE.—The provisions of this title relating to patents for inventions shall apply to patents for designs, except as otherwise provided.
- (c) FILING DATE.—The filing date of an application for patent for design shall be the date on which the specification as prescribed by section 112 and any required drawings are filed.
(Amended Dec. 18, 2012, Public Law 112-211, sec. 202(a), 126 Stat. 1535.)
Cited authority
Cited by
- 1120 Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications
- 1502 Definition of a Design
- 1502.01 Distinction Between Design and Utility Patents
- 1503.02 Drawing
- 1504.01 Statutory Subject Matter for Designs
- 1504.01(a) Computer-Generated Electronic Images
- 1504.01(b) Design Comprising Multiple Articles or Multiple Parts Embodied in a Single Article
- 1504.01(c) Lack of Ornamentality
- 1504.01(d) Simulation
- 1504.01(e) Offensive Subject Matter
- 1504.02 Novelty
- 1504.03 Nonobviousness
- 1504.05 Restriction
- 1504.06 Double Patenting
- 1512 Relationship Between Design Patent, Copyright, and Trademark
- 201 Types of Applications
- 201.01 National Applications
- 201.06(c) 37 CFR 1.53(b) and 37 CFR 1.63(d) Divisional-Continuation Procedure
- 211.02 Reference to Prior Application(s)
- 2903 Declarations under the Hague Agreement Made by the United States of America
- 2909 Contents of the International Design Application
- 2920.01 Inventorship
- 2920.05(a) Notification of Refusal
- 2950 Grant of Protection Only Upon Issuance of Patent; Term of Design Patent
- 502.05 Correspondence Transmitted by EFS-Web
- 601.01(a) Nonprovisional Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111(a)
- 601.01(e) Nonprovisional Application Filed Without at Least One Claim
- 608.02 Drawing
- 609.04(b) Timing Requirements for an Information Disclosure Statement
- 804 Definition of Double Patenting
- 901.03 Pending Applications
- 35 U.S.C. 122 Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications
- 37 CFR 1.1052 Conversion to a design application under 35 U.S.C. chapter 16
- 37 CFR 1.1071 Grant of protection for an industrial design only upon issuance of a patent