Volume 68
Public Law 83–775
To amend section 161, title 35, United States Code, relating to the patenting of plants.
Approved September 3, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 161, title 35, United States Code, relating to the patenting of plants.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 161, title 35, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 161. Patents for plants.—
Whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
“The provisions of this title relating to patents for inventions shall apply to patents for plants, except as otherwise provided.”
Approved September 3, 1954.