Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§2484 Correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 57— - PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - PROTECTABILITY OF PLANT VARIETIES AND CERTIFICATES OF PROTECTION › Part Part H— - Certificates of Plant Variety Protection › § 2484
Summary
If the Office's records clearly show a mistake it made on a plant variety protection certificate, the Secretary can issue a free corrected certificate that has the same legal effect as if it had been issued correctly at first.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §2484
Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Whenever a mistake in a certificate of plant variety protection incurred through the fault of the Plant Variety Protection Office is clearly disclosed by the records of the Office, the Secretary may issue, without charge, a corrected certificate of plant variety protection, stating the fact and nature of such mistake. Such certificate of plant variety protection shall have the same effect and operation in law as if the same had been originally issued in such corrected form.
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Amendments
1980—Pub. L. 96–574 substituted provisions relating to correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake for provisions relating to certificate of correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 2484
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73