FEDERAL · 17 U.S.C. · Chapter 13
Certification of registration
17 U.S.C. § 1314
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17 U.S.C. § 1314.
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Certificates of registration shall be issued in the name of the United States under the seal of the Office of the Administrator and shall be recorded in the official records of the Office. The certificate shall state the name of the useful article, the date of filing of the application, the date of registration, and the date the design was made public, if earlier than the date of filing of the application, and shall contain a reproduction of the drawing or other pictorial representation of the design. If a description of the salient features of the design appears in the application, the description shall also appear in the certificate. A certificate of registration shall be admitted in any court as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.
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(Added Pub. L. 105–304, title V, §502, Oct. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 2912.)
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