[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR97.1]

[Page 252-253]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
 CHAPTER I--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE \1\ (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, 
       MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)
 
PART 97_PLANT VARIETY AND PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 97.1  General.

    Certificates of protection are issued by the Plant Variety 
Protection office

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for new, distinct, uniform, and stable varieties of sexually reproduced 
or tubor propagated plants. Each certificate of plant variety protection 
certifies that the breeder has the right, during the term of the 
protection, to prevent others from selling the variety, offering it for 
sale, reproducing it, importing or exporting it, conditioning it, 
stocking it, or using it in producing a hybrid or different variety from 
it, as provided by the Act.

[58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, as amended at 60 FR 17189, Apr. 4, 1995]

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