Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§2403 Reciprocity Limits
Title 7 › CHAPTER 57 — PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION › SUBCHAPTER II — PROTECTABILITY OF PLANT VARIETIES AND CERTIFICATES OF PROTECTION › Part D — Protectability of Plant Varieties › § 2403
Summary
Officials can make rules that limit these protections so they only apply to U.S. nationals. They cannot do that if doing so would break a treaty. Also, people who live in another country get whatever parts of these protections that that country gives to U.S. nationals for the same kinds of benefits.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §2403
Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Protection under this chapter may, by regulation, be limited to nationals of the United States, except where this limitation would violate a treaty and except that nationals of a foreign state in which they are domiciled shall be entitled to so much of the protection here afforded as is afforded by said foreign state to nationals of the United States for the same genus and species.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 2403
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102