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[CITE: 7USC2544]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
           SUBCHAPTER III--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION AND RIGHTS
 
            Part K--Infringement of Plant Variety Protection
 
Sec. 2544. Research exemption

    The use and reproduction of a protected variety for plant breeding 
or other bona fide research shall not constitute an infringement of the 
protection provided under this chapter.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title III, Sec. 114, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1555.)
