2011 US Code
Title 7 - Agriculture
Chapter 57 - PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION (§§ 2321 - 2583)
Subchapter III - PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION AND RIGHTS (§§ 2531 - 2583)
Part L - Remedies for Infringement of Plant Variety Protection, and Other Actions (§§ 2561 - 2570)
Section 2568 - False marking; cease and desist orders
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | 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. 2568 - False marking; cease and desist orders |
Contains | section 2568 |
Date | 2011 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 91-577, title III, §128, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1557; Pub. L. 96-574, §19(c), Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3352; Pub. L. 103-349, §§12, 13(v), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3142, 3144. |
Statutes at Large References | 84 Stat. 1557 94 Stat. 3352 108 Stat. 3142 |
Public Law References | Public Law 91-577, Public Law 96-574, Public Law 103-349 |
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(a) Each of the following acts, if performed in connection with the sale, offering for sale, or advertising of sexually reproducible plant material or tubers or parts of tubers, is prohibited, and the Secretary may, if the Secretary determines after an opportunity for hearing that the act is being so performed, issue an order to cease and desist, said order being binding unless appealed under section 2461 of this title:
(1) Use of the words “U.S. Protected Variety” or any word or number importing that the material is a variety protected under certificate, when it is not.
(2) Use of any wording importing that the material is a variety for which an application for plant variety protection is pending, when it is not.
(3) Use of either the phrase “Unauthorized Propagation Prohibited” or “Unauthorized Seed Multiplication Prohibited” or similar phrase without reasonable basis. Any reasonable basis expires one year after the first sale of the variety except as justified thereafter by a pending application or a certificate still in force.
(4) Failure to use the name of a variety for which a certificate of protection has been issued under this chapter, even after the expiration of the certificate, except that lawn, turf, or forage grass seed, or alfalfa or clover seed may be sold without a variety name unless use of the name of a variety for which a certificate of protection has been issued under this chapter is required under State law.
(b) Anyone convicted of violating a binding cease and desist order, or of performing any act prohibited in subsection (a) of this section for the purpose of deceiving the public, shall be fined not more than $10,000 and not less than $500.
(c) Anyone whose business is damaged or is likely to be damaged by an act prohibited in subsection (a) of this section, or is subjected to competition in connection with which such act is performed, may have remedy by civil action.
(Pub. L. 91–577, title III, §128, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1557; Pub. L. 96–574, §19(c), Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3352; Pub. L. 103–349, §§12, 13(v), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3142, 3144.)
Amendments1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–349 inserted “or tubers or parts of tubers” after “plant material” and substituted “if the Secretary determines” for “if he determines” in introductory provisions, and added par. (4).
1980—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 96–574 substituted provisions respecting prohibitions for use of phrases “Unauthorized Propagation Prohibited” and “Unauthorized Seed Multiplication Prohibited” for provisions respecting prohibitions for use of phrase “propagation prohibited”.
Effective Date of 1994 AmendmentAmendment 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.
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