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IP/N/1/USA/P/17  
 
25 September 2020  
(20-6535)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : PLANT VARIETY AND PROTECTION REGULATIONS  
Notifying Member  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Plant Variety and Protection Regulations  
Subject matter  Patents (including plant variety protection)  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2020/IP/USA/20_5562_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[X] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/USA /P/4 
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Certificates of protection are issued by the Plant Variety Protection office for new, distinct, uniform, 
and stable varieties of sexually reproduced, tuber propagated, or asexually reproduced plants. Each 
certificate of plant variety protection certifies that the breeder has the right, during the term of the 
protection, to prevent others from selling the variety, offering it for sale, reproducing it, importing 
or exporting it, conditioning it, stocking it, or using it in producing a hybrid or different variety from 
it, as provided by the Act.  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  6 January 2020  
Other date    
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  18 August 2020  IP/N/1/USA/65 • IP/N/1/USA/P/17  
 
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  Other information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  U.S. Department of Agriculture  
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.   