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[CITE: 7USC2569]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 57--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
 
           SUBCHAPTER III--PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION AND RIGHTS
 
Part L--Remedies for Infringement of Plant Variety Protection, and Other 
                                 Actions
 
Sec. 2569. Nonresident proprietors; service and notice

    Every owner not residing in the United States may file in the Plant 
Variety Protection Office a written designation stating the name and 
address of a person residing within the United States on whom may be 
served process or notice of proceedings affecting the plant variety 
protection or rights thereunder. If the person designated cannot be 
found at the address given in the last designation, or if no person has 
been designated, the United States District Court for the District of 
Columbia shall have jurisdiction and summons shall be served by 
publication or otherwise as the court directs. The court shall have the 
same jurisdiction to take any action respecting the plant variety 
protection, or rights thereunder that it would have if the owner were 
personally within the jurisdiction of the court.

(Pub. L. 91-577, title III, Sec. 129, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1557.)
