Title 7, Chapter 57
Agriculture — 66 sections
- § 2321 Section 2321 - Establishment
- § 2322 Section 2322 - Seal
- § 2323 Section 2323 - Organization
- § 2324 Section 2324 - Restrictions on employees as to interest in plant variety protection
- § 2325 Section 2325 - Repealed. Pub. L. 96–574 , § 2, Dec. 22, 1980 , 94 Stat. 3350
- § 2326 Section 2326 - Regulations
- § 2327 Section 2327 - Plant Variety Protection Board
- § 2328 Section 2328 - Library
- § 2329 Section 2329 - Register of protected plant varieties
- § 2330 Section 2330 - Publications
- § 2331 Section 2331 - Copies for public libraries
- § 2351 Section 2351 - Day for taking action falling on Saturday, Sunday, or holiday
- § 2352 Section 2352 - Form of papers filed
- § 2353 Section 2353 - Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases
- § 2354 Section 2354 - Subpoenas; witnesses
- § 2355 Section 2355 - Effect of defective execution
- § 2356 Section 2356 - Regulations for practice before the Office
- § 2357 Section 2357 - Unauthorized practice
- § 2371 Section 2371 - Plant variety protection fees
- § 2372 Section 2372 - Payment of plant variety protection fees; return of excess amounts
- § 2401 Section 2401 - Definitions and rules of construction
- § 2402 Section 2402 - Right to plant variety protection; plant varieties protectable
- § 2403 Section 2403 - Reciprocity limits
- § 2404 Section 2404 - Public interest in wide usage
- § 2421 Section 2421 - Application for recognition of plant variety rights
- § 2422 Section 2422 - Content of application
- § 2423 Section 2423 - Joint breeders
- § 2424 Section 2424 - Death or incapacity of breeder
- § 2425 Section 2425 - Benefit of earlier filing date
- § 2426 Section 2426 - Confidential status of application
- § 2427 Section 2427 - Publication
- § 2441 Section 2441 - Examination of application
- § 2442 Section 2442 - Notice of refusal; reconsideration
- § 2443 Section 2443 - Initial appeal
- § 2461 Section 2461 - Appeals
- § 2462 Section 2462 - Civil action against Secretary
- § 2463 Section 2463 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–349 , § 8(c)(2), Oct. 6, 1994 , 108 Stat. 3141
- § 2481 Section 2481 - Plant variety protection
- § 2482 Section 2482 - How issued
- § 2483 Section 2483 - Contents and term of plant variety protection
- § 2484 Section 2484 - Correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake
- § 2485 Section 2485 - Correction of applicant’s mistake
- § 2486 Section 2486 - Correction of named breeder
- § 2501 Section 2501 - Reexamination after issue
- § 2503 Section 2503 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–349 , § 8(a), Oct. 6, 1994 , 108 Stat. 3140
- § 2504 Section 2504 - Interfering plant variety protection
- § 2531 Section 2531 - Ownership and assignment
- § 2532 Section 2532 - Ownership during testing
- § 2541 Section 2541 - Infringement of plant variety protection
- § 2542 Section 2542 - Grandfather clause
- § 2543 Section 2543 - Right to save seed; crop exemption
- § 2544 Section 2544 - Research exemption
- § 2545 Section 2545 - Intermediary exemption
- § 2561 Section 2561 - Remedy for infringement of plant variety protection
- § 2562 Section 2562 - Presumption of validity; defenses
- § 2563 Section 2563 - Injunction
- § 2564 Section 2564 - Damages
- § 2565 Section 2565 - Attorney fees
- § 2566 Section 2566 - Time limitation on damages
- § 2567 Section 2567 - Limitation of damages; marking and notice
- § 2568 Section 2568 - False marking; cease and desist orders
- § 2569 Section 2569 - Nonresident proprietors; service and notice
- § 2570 Section 2570 - Liability of States, instrumentalities of States, and State officials for infringement of plant variety protection
- § 2581 Section 2581 - Intent
- § 2582 Section 2582 - Severability
- § 2583 Section 2583 - Repealed. Pub. L. 96–574 , § 20, Dec. 22, 1980 , 94 Stat. 3352