Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§2485 Correction of Applicant’s Mistake
Title 7 › CHAPTER 57 — PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION › SUBCHAPTER II — PROTECTABILITY OF PLANT VARIETIES AND CERTIFICATES OF PROTECTION › Part H — Certificates of Plant Variety Protection › § 2485
Summary
Small, honest clerical or description mistakes in plant variety protection certificates that were not the Office’s fault can be fixed by the Secretary before issuance; after the required fee is paid, the corrected certificate has the same legal effect as if originally issued.
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Title 7, §2485
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Whenever a mistake of a clerical or typographical nature, or of minor character, or in the description of the variety, which was not the fault of the Plant Variety Protection Office, appears in a certificate of plant variety protection and a showing has been made that such mistake occurred in good faith, the Secretary may, upon payment of the required fee, issue a corrected certificate if the correction could have been made before the certificate issued. 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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1980—Pub. L. 96–574 struck out applicability of section 2484 of this title to manner and form of certificate, and reference to trials of actions thereafter arising with respect to effect and operation in law of certificate.
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7 U.S.C. § 2485
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102