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[CITE: 7USC2330]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE
 
                  Part A--Organization and Publications
 
Sec. 2330. Publications

    (a) The Secretary may publish, or cause to be published, in such 
format as the Secretary shall determine to be suitable, the following:
        (1) The descriptions of plant varieties protected including 
    drawings and photographs.
        (2) The Official Journal of the Plant Variety Protection Office, 
    including annual indices.
        (3) Pamphlet copies of the plant variety protection laws and 
    rules of practice and circulars or other publications relating to 
    the business of the Office.

    (b) The Secretary may (1) establish public facilities for the 
searching of plant variety protection records and materials, and (2) 
from time to time, as through an information service, disseminate to the 
public those portions of the technological and other public information 
available to or within the Plant Variety Protection Office to encourage 
innovation and promote the progress of plant breeding.
    (c) The Secretary may exchange any of the publications specified for 
publications desirable for the use of the Plant Variety Protection 
Office. The Secretary may exchange copies of descriptions, drawings, and 
photographs of United States protected plant varieties for copies of 
descriptions, drawings, and photographs of applications and protected 
plant varieties of foreign countries.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title I, Sec. 10, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1543; Pub. L. 
96-574, Secs. 5-8, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3350; Pub. L. 103-349, 
Sec. 13(b), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3143.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-349 substituted ``the Secretary'' for 
``he'' before ``shall'' in introductory provisions.
    1980--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96-574, Sec. 5, substituted provisions 
respecting descriptions for provisions respecting specifications.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-574, Secs. 6, 7, struck out subsec. (b) 
which related to photolithography and lithography, redesignated subsec. 
(c) as (b) and substituted ``plant breeding'' for ``the useful arts''.
    Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 96-574, Secs. 7, 8, redesignated subsec. 
(d) as (c) and substituted ``descriptions'' for ``specifications'' in 
two places. Former subsec. (c) redesignated (b).


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, 
see section 15 of Pub. L. 103-349, set out as a note under section 2401 
of this title.
