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17 U.S.C. § 1308

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The owner of a design protected under this chapter has the exclusive right to—
  1. (1)make, have made, or import, for sale or for use in trade, any useful article embodying that design; and
  2. (2)sell or distribute for sale or for use in trade any useful article embodying that design.