---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2424"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2424"
heading: "Death or incapacity of breeder"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2424"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Protectability of Plant Varieties and Certificates of Protection"
  - "Part E — Applications; Form; Who May File; Relating Back; Confidentiality"
---

# §2424. Death or incapacity of breeder


Legal representatives of deceased [breeders](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-3) and of those under legal incapacity may make application for plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection upon compliance with the requirements and on the same terms and conditions applicable to the [breeder](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-3) or the successor in interest of the [breeder](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 54, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1548; Pub. L. 103–349, § 13(h), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3143.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the successor in interest of the breeder” for “his successor in interest”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment 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.