Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§2481 Plant Variety Protection

Title 7 › CHAPTER 57 — PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION › SUBCHAPTER II — PROTECTABILITY OF PLANT VARIETIES AND CERTIFICATES OF PROTECTION › Part H — Certificates of Plant Variety Protection › § 2481

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

When an application looks ready, the owner gets a written notice saying how much the issue fee is and that it must be paid within one month. After the fee is paid on time and the seed deposit required under section 2422(3) is made, the certificate is issued. If the fee is late, the Secretary can accept it within nine months after the due date (or longer if allowed) if the owner also pays an extra fee set by the Secretary.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2481

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(a)If it appears that a certificate of plant variety protection should be issued on an application, a written notice of allowance shall be given or mailed to the owner. The notice shall specify the sum, constituting the issue fee, which shall be paid within one month thereafter.

(b)Upon timely payment of this sum, and provided that deposit of seed has been made in accordance with section 2422(3) of this title, the certificate of plant variety protection shall issue.

(c)If any payment required by this section is not timely made, but is submitted with an additional fee prescribed by the Secretary within nine months after the due date or within such further time as the Secretary may allow, it shall be accepted.

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section 2422(3) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was redesignated section 2422(4) of this title by Pub. L. 103–349, § 4, Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3139.

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7 U.S.C. § 2481

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110