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[CITE: 7USC2531]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
           SUBCHAPTER III--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION AND RIGHTS
 
                    Part J--Ownership and Assignment
 
Sec. 2531. Ownership and assignment

    (a) Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, plant variety 
protection shall have the attributes of personal property.
    (b) Applications for certificates of plant variety protection, or 
any interest in a variety, shall be assignable by an instrument in 
writing. The owner may in like manner license or grant and convey an 
exclusive right to use of the variety in the whole or any specified part 
of the United States.
    (c) A certificate of acknowledgment under the hand and official seal 
of a person authorized to administer oaths within the United States, or 
in a foreign country, of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United 
States or an officer authorized to administer oaths whose authority is 
proved by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the 
United States, shall be prima facie evidence of the execution of an 
assignment, grant, license, or conveyance of plant variety protection or 
application for plant variety protection.
    (d) An assignment, grant, conveyance or license shall be void as 
against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable 
consideration, without notice, unless it, or an acknowledgment thereof 
by the person giving such encumbrance that there is such encumbrance, is 
filed for recording in the Plant Variety Protection Office within one 
month from its date or at least one month prior to the date of such 
subsequent purchase or mortgage.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title III, Sec. 101, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1554.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2483 of this title.
