7 U.S.C. § 2542
Grandfather clause
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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- 7 U.S.C. § 2542, Grandfather clause, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/430397
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Nothing in this chapter shall abridge the right of any person, or the successor in interest of the person, to reproduce or sell a variety developed and produced by such person more than one year prior to the effective filing date of an adverse application for a certificate of plant variety protection.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally