---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2427"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2427"
heading: "Publication"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2427"
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"
---

# §2427. Publication


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may establish regulations for the publication of information regarding any pending application when publication is requested by the owner.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 57, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1549; Pub. L. 96–574, § 13, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3350.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–574 inserted “information regarding” after “publication of”.