1305.2 Unoriginal Designs
Protection does not extend to any vessel design that is:
• Not original.
• Staple or commonplace, such as a standard geometric figure, a familiar symbol, an emblem, or a motif, or another shape, pattern, or configuration which has become standard, common, prevalent, or ordinary.
• Different from a staple or commonplace design, such as a standard geometric figure, a familiar symbol, an emblem, or a motif, or another shape, pattern, or configuration which has become standard, common, prevalent, or ordinary only in insignificant details or in elements which are variants commonly used in the relevant trades.
• Dictated solely by a utilitarian function of the article that embodies it.
17 U.S.C. § 1302 (1)- (4).