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7 U.S.C. § 2353 — Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases
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The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the State where the officer resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing officer by authority of the Secretary, the person shall have like power.
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The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the State where the officer resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing officer by authority of the Secretary, the person shall have like power.
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**(a) Definitions** As used in this chapter:
(1) **Asexually reproduced** — The term “asexually reproduced” means produced by a method of plant propagation using vegetative material (other than seed) from a single parent, including cuttings, grafting, tissue culture, and propagation by root division.
(2) **Basic seed** — The term “basic seed” means the seed planted to produce certified or commercial seed.
(3) **Breeder** — The term “breeder” means the person who directs the final breeding creating a variety or who discovers and develops a variety. If the actions are conducted by an agent on behalf of a principal, the principal, rather than the agent, shall be considered the breeder. The term does not include a person who redevelops or rediscovers a variety the existence of which is publicly known or a matter of common knowledge.
(4) **Essentially derived variety**
(A) *In general* — The term “essentially derived variety” means a variety that—
(i) is predominantly derived from another variety (referred to in this paragraph as the “initial variety”) or from a variety that is predominantly derived from the initial variety, while retaining the expression of the essential characteristics that result from the genotype or combination of genotypes of the initial variety;
(ii) is clearly distinguishable from the initial variety; and
(iii) except for differences that result from the act of derivation, conforms to the initial variety in the expression of the essential characteristics that result from the genotype or combination of genotypes of the initial variety.
(B) *Methods* — An essentially derived variety may be obtained by the selection of a natural or induced mutant or of a somaclonal variant, the selection of a variant individual from plants of the
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 2354
(2) The Official Journal of the Plant Variety
Protection Office, including annual indices.
(3) Pamphlet copies of the plant variety pro-
tection laws and rules of practice and circu-
lars or other publications relating to the busi-
ness of the Office.
(b) The Secretary may (1) establish public fa-
cilities for the searching of plant variety protec-
tion records and materials, and (2) from time to
time, as through an information service, dis-
seminate to the public those portions of the
technological and other public information
available to or within the Plant Variety Protec-
tion Office to encourage innovation and promote
the progress of plant breeding.
(c) The Secretary may exchange any of the
publications specified for publications desirable
for the use of the Plant Variety Protection Of-
fice. The Secretary may exchange copies of de-
scriptions, drawings, and photographs of United
States protected plant varieties for copies of de-
scriptions, drawings, and photographs of appli-
cations and protected plant varieties of foreign
countries.
(Pub. L. 91–577, title I, § 10, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat.
1543; Pub. L. 96–574, §§ 5–8, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat.
3350; Pub. L. 103–349, § 13(b), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat.
3143.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–349 substituted ‘‘the
Secretary’’ for ‘‘he’’ before ‘‘shall’’ in introductory pro-
visions.
1980—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 96–574, § 5, substituted
provisions respecting descriptions for provisions re-
specting specifications.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–574, §§ 6, 7, struck out subsec.
(b) which related to photolithography and lithography,
redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and substituted ‘‘plant
breeding’’ for ‘‘the useful arts’’.
Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub
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