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[CITE: 7USC2481]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
  SUBCHAPTER II--PROTECTABILITY OF PLANT VARIETIES AND CERTIFICATES OF 
                               PROTECTION
 
            Part H--Certificates of Plant Variety Protection
 
Sec. 2481. Plant variety protection

    (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) \1\ of this title, 
the certificate of plant variety protection shall issue.
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    (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.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title II, Sec. 81, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1551.)

                       References in Text

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