Title 7 — Agriculture
Part M · Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection
§ 2581. Intent
Statutory text
It is the intent of Congress to provide the indicated protection for new varieties by exercise of any constitutional power needed for that end, so as to afford adequate encouragement for research, and for marketing when appropriate, to yield for the public the benefits of new varieties. Constitutional clauses 3 and 8 of article I, section 8 are both relied upon.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 91–577 title III § 131 · 84 Stat. 1542
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2581
(Pub. L. 91–577, title III, § 131, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1558.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–577, title III, § 131, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1558.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 131. Intent. It is the intent of Congress to provide the indicated protection for new varieties by exercise of any constitutional power needed for that end, so as to afford adequate encouragement for research, and for marketing when appropriate, to yield for the public the benefits of new USC prec. title 1. varieties. Constitutional clauses 3 and 8 of article I, section 8 are both relied upon.
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