Within the general area of legal protection afforded industrial and intellectual property, the scope and efficacy of the laws relating to industrial or commercial product design remains an unsettled problem area. There is a considerable body of opinion to the effect that the existing legal structure does not adequately protect the commercial designer against unlicensed imitation or copying of his designs.' At present, commercial designers have several possible sources of legal protection for their designs: common law rights based upon the tort law of unfair competition, the design patent statute, the copyright statute, and to a limited extent, the trademark statute. It is the purpose of this Comment to examine each of the legal sources of design protection with the emphasis on marking out their limitations and, in addition, to submit a method of analysis for the assessment of present and future design protection legislation.