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[CITE: 7USC2532]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
           SUBCHAPTER III--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION AND RIGHTS
 
                    Part J--Ownership and Assignment
 
Sec. 2532. Ownership during testing

    An owner who, with notice that release is for testing only, releases 
possession of seed or other sexually reproducible or tuber propagable 
plant material for testing retains ownership with respect thereto; and 
any diversion from authorized testing, or any unauthorized retention, of 
such material by anyone who has knowledge that it is under such notice, 
or who is chargeable with notice, is prohibited, and violates the 
property rights of the owner. Anyone receiving the material tagged or 
labeled with the notice is chargeable with the notice. The owner is 
entitled to remedy and redress in a civil action hereunder. No remedy 
available by State or local law is hereby excluded. No such notice shall 
be used, or if used be effective, when the owner has made identical 
sexually reproducible or tuber propagable plant material available to 
the public, as by sale thereof.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title III, Sec. 102, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1554; Pub. 
L. 103-349, Sec. 8(d)(2), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3141.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-349 inserted ``or tuber propagable'' after 
``sexually reproducible'' in two places.


                    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.
