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Design

Design
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creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system; process of creation; act of creativity and innovation

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  1. Protection for a design under this chapter shall be available notwithstanding the employment in the design of subject matter excluded from protection under section 1302 if the design is a substantial revision, adaptation, or rearrangement of such subject matter. Such protection shall be independent of any subsisting protection in subject matter employed in the design, and shall not be construed as securing any right…

    United States, Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92

    The chapter “Section 1302. Designs not subject to protection [3]” is titled for Design; names Design several times.

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  2. Or rather we cannot by any possibility comprehend it. The mere word 'design' by itself has, we see, no consequences and explains nothing. It is the barrenest of principles. The old question of WHETHER there is design is idle. The real question is WHAT is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

    William James, Pragmatism

    Names Design several times; states what Design is.

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  3. We, however, hold that all things in the Universe are the result of design, and not merely of necessity; He who designed them may change them when He changes His design. But not every design is subject to change; for there are things which are impossible, and their nature cannot be altered, as will be explained. Here, in this chapter, I merely wish to show by arguments almost as forcible as real proofs, that the…

    Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed

    Names Design several times; states what Design is.

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